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.
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-ventures.
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.
TAX
9 filings
$360K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$450K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$450K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$360K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
3 filings
$270K 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.
STRONG Patents Act of 2015
7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3600111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 610111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5340115th CongressSTRONGER Patents Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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.
Doug BadgerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant to the President for Leg. Affairs
