• Encouraged the Executive Branch to insist that foreign countries implement their obligations under the WTO TRIPS Agreement and other international and bilateral intellectual property agreements to provide proper protection to Schering-Plough products.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to June 5, 2008

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $0 (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 2007: Y Y Department of Commerce Department of State Office of the US Trade Representative