Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Patent Office Professional Association
Virginia
69 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
41 filings
$820K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
14 filings
$233K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Richard Hirn MR.RICHARD Hirn42 filingsthrough 2026
- Helen Delich Bentley Helen Delich Bentley11 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: patent-office-professional-association.