Lobbying Relationship

Client

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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Lobbying firm

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

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  • America Invests Act amendments; implementation and studies; Bayh-Dole Act amendments; gene-diagnostic patents; Start-Up Act; embryonic stem cell legislation; grace period reform; abusive patent litigation reforms.

Duration: to

General Issues: Copyright/Patent/Trademark

Spending: about $1,770,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO),, White House Office, White House Office,, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Energy - Dept of, Commerce - Dept of (DOC),, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Y Y

Bills mentioned

S.23: America Invents Act

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

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

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.1260: Patent Reform Act of 2009

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

S.515: Patent Reform Act of 2009

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

S.610: Patent Reform Act of 2009

Sponsor: Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)

H.CON.RES.328: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the successful and...

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

S.1373: Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009

Sponsor: Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.)

H.R.5037: Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009

Sponsor: Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)

H.R.4954: To amend title 35, United States Code, to provide recourse under the...

Sponsor: Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)

H.R.1908: Patent Reform Act of 2007

Sponsor: Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.)

S.1145: Patent Reform Act of 2007

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

S.3600: Patent Reform Act of 2008

Sponsor: Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)

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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?
Michael Remington n/a

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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