Lobbying Relationship

Client

The Medicines Company

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Lobbying firm

Cove Strategies

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  • Issues relating to filing deadline under the Hatch-Waxman Act for patent term restorations.

Duration: to

General Issues: Copyright/Patent/Trademark

Spending: about $650,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Bills mentioned

H.R.1249: Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.2847: Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act

Sponsor: Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.)

H.R.1256: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

Sponsor: Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Matthew Schlapp Political Director/Deputy Political Director, White House Chief of Staff, Representative Todd Tiahrt
Frank Sadler Deputy Office Mgr, Senator George Allen Nortern VA Regional Rep, Senator George Allen

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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