[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 97 (Thursday, May 20, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28294-28295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12031]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The Applied Nanotechnology Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 26, 2010, 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 Applied Nanotechnology 
Consortium (``TANC'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the identities of the parties to the venture and (2) the nature and 
objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose 
of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
to the venture are: Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc., 
East Hartford, CT; Ensign-Bickford

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Aerospace and Defense, Simsbury, CT; GKN Aerospace Services Structures 
Corporation, Cromwell, CT; Imperial Machine Tool Co., Columbia, NJ; 
Kaman Precision Products-Fuzing, Middletown, CT; University of 
Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and 
the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT. The general areas of 
TANC's planned activities are to perform coordinated planning and 
research and development prototype efforts designed to encompass the 
following as it relates to nanotechnology: (a) Nanoparticle Production 
Methods/Processing of Nano Composites; (b) Laser Processing of Nano-
Composite Materials; (c) Nanotech Education; (d) Nano Energetics and 
Safe & Arming Solutions; and (e) Advanced Structural Materials and 
Systems.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-12031 Filed 5-19-10; 8:45 am]
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