[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 111 (Friday, June 8, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34067-34068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13992]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 30, 2012, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Robotics Technology Consortium, 
Inc. (``RTC'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
its membership. 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, Baum Romstedt Technology Research Corp (BRTRC), Fairfax, 
VA; Dezudio, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA; Kairos Autonomi, Sandy, UT; Kicker 
Studio, LLC, San Francisco, CA; John H. Northrop & Associates, Inc., 
Burke, VA; Pratt & Miller Engineering, New Hudson, MI; and rChordata, 
LLC, Charlotte, NC, have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; American Android 
Corp., Princeton, NJ; API Defense, Inc., Windber, PA; ATI Industrial 
Automation, Apex, NC; BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA; BioRobots, 
LLC, Cleveland, OH; Defense Research Associates Inc., Beavercreek, OH; 
Elbit Systems of America, LLC, Ft. Worth, TX; Great Lakes Sound & 
Vibration, Inc. (GLSV), Houghton, MI; Integration Innovation Inc., 
Huntsville, AL; John H. Northrop & Associates, Inc., Burke, VA; Lithos 
Robotics Corporation, Amherst, NY; Mechatron Inc., Somerville, MA; 
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc., Palo Alto, 
CA; Oakland University, Rochester, MI; Robotics Research Corporation, 
Cincinnati, OH; Square One Systems Design, Inc., Jackson, WY; The 
Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; The George Washington University, 
Washington, DC; University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA; 
Valde Systems, Inc., Nashua, NH; and Virtus Advanced Sensors, 
Pittsburgh, PA, have withdrawn as parties from this venture.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 RTC intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 15, 2009, RTC 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 
November 30, 2009 (74 FR 62599).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on November 22, 
2011. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the

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Act on December 21, 2011 (76 FR 79218).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-13992 Filed 6-7-12; 8:45 am]
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