[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 188 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26039]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Biotechnology Research & Development 
Corporation (``BRDC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 12, 1998, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''). Biotechnology Research and 
Development Corporation (``BRDC'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 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. Specifically, Seminis Vegetable 
Seeds, Inc., Woodland, CA has been added as a party to this venture.
    On May 20, 1998, BRDC issued to Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. 
(``Seminis''), and Seminis purchased from BRDC, 746\2/3\ shares of 
common stock, without par value, of BRDC. Simultaneously, with the 
issuance and purchase of the shares of the common stock, BRDC and 
Seminis entered into an Agreement to be bound by the terms and 
conditions of the BRDC Master Agreement effective as of June 10, 1998, 
by and among BRDC and its common stockholders. Seminis has the rights 
set forth in the BRDC Master agreement in all project technology made, 
discovered, conceived, developed, learned, or acquired by or on behalf 
of BRDC in connection with, or arising out of, or as the result of, a 
research project in existence while Seminis is a common stockholder of 
BRDC.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and Biotechnology Research and 
Development Corporation (``BRDC'') intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 13, 1988, Biotechnology Research and Development 
Corporation (``BRDC'') 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 May 12, 
1988 (53 FR 16919).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 9, 1997. 
A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) 
of the Act on June 5, 1997 (62 FR 30882).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-26039 Filed 9-28-98; 8:45 am]
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