[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 156 (Friday, August 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49263-49264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20300]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--J Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 21, 2000, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), J Consortium, Inc. has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 
The notifications

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were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting 
the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances. Specifically, Universitat Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; 
BioSystems S.A., Barcelona, Spain; Ken Leiner Associates (KLA), 
Wheaton, MD; Trialog, Paris, France; Universitat des Saarlandes, 
Saarbrucken, Germany; and Manickavel Subramani, Boyds, MD have been 
added as parties to this venture.
    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 J Consortium, Inc. intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On August 9, 1999, J Consortium, Inc. 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 March 21, 2000 (65 FR 15175).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 20, 
2000. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20300 Filed 8-9-00; 8:45 am]
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