Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Protect Trade Secrets Coalition (Informal Coalition)
District of Columbia
10 filings from 1 registrant · 2014–2016 · latest filed May 12, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
10 filings
$1.2M 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 3326 114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20151 filingthrough 2016
- S. 1890 114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 20161 filingthrough 2016
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Daniel L Spiegel Covington & Burling LLPCovered position: US Ambassador to UN (Geneva)11 filingsthrough 2016
- Richard Hertling Covington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Cmte ; ; (Cont.) Acting Asst. AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ11 filingsthrough 2016
- Aaron Cooper Covington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel IP/ Antitrust Law, Senate Judiciary Cmte.7 filingsthrough 2015
- Stephen Kiehl Covington & Burling LLP
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: protect-trade-secrets-coalition-informal-coalition.