45 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Jan 21, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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
45 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
13 filings
$450K on those filings
Telecommunications
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.J.Res. 37112th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act5 filingsthrough 2012
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: tivo.
$450K
fees reported
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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.
TEC
11 filings
$330K 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.
112th Congress
America Invents Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3458111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1228112th CongressCombating Military Counterfeits Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1201110th CongressFreedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3804111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
