[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 16808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9389]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Michigan Materials and Processing Institute

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 1, 1995, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Michigan Materials and 
Processing Institute (``MMPI'') filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its organization. The notifications 
were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting 
the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances. MMPI has reorganized from a membership-based non-profit 
corporation to a stock-based non-profit organization. Industrial 
shareholders are required to fund minimum levels of research, based on 
their sales of polymer composite materials or the base materials used 
in structural polymer composite materials. Aside from the funding 
mechanism, the structure of MMPI is essentially unchanged, with 
industrial shareholders receiving preferential rights to negotiate for 
rights to intellectual property derived from MMPI's research program.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or the 
planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this 
group research project remains open, and MMPI intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On August 7, 1990, MMPI filed its original notification pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice 
in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on 
September 6, 1990, 55 Fed. Reg. 36710. The last notification was filed 
with the Department on July 24, 1995. A notice was published in the 
Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act of March 12, 1996, 
61 Fed. Reg. 10012-01.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-9389 Filed 4-16-96; 8:45 am]
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