• intellectual property issues related to banking - 101 reform, covered business method patent program reform and extension, patent litigation reform, monitoring COVID19 financial services related issues
• congressional USPTO oversight and patent reform efforts

Duration: December 1, 2014 to January 1, 2021

General Issues: Banking, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities

Spending: about $457,500 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2014: U.S. Senate, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), White House Office, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), House of Representatives, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)