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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
139 filings
$6.5M 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 215 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: intellectual-property-owners-association.
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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 628111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 299111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 610111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 726111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 80111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2140118th CongressPatent Eligibility Restoration Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2220118th CongressPREVAIL Act6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 866113th CongressPatent Quality Improvement Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
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.
12 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth RichardsonIntellectual Property Owners Association6 filingsthrough 2011
Thomas Silvio ValenteIntellectual Property Owners Association5 filingsthrough 2008
Dana Robert ColarulliIntellectual Property Owners Association4 filingsthrough 2009
