64 filings from 7 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 21, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$5.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
62 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.18 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.17 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 200715 filingsthrough 2008
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: coalition-for-patent-fairness.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
110th Congress
Patent Reform Act of 2007
14 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 201313 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 845113th CongressSaving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2639113th CongressPatent Litigation and Innovation Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
S. 866113th CongressPatent Quality Improvement Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act9 filingsthrough 2012
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Brian PetersFranklin Square Group, LLC24 filingsthrough 2015
Ryan TripletteFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Chief IP Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee19 filingsthrough 2015
