[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 188 (Tuesday, September 29, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58504-58505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24604]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act--Global Climate and Energy Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 17, 2015, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Global Climate and Energy 
Project (``GCEP'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with 
the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
changes in its membership, nature and objective. The notifications were 
filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the 
recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages

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under specified circumstances. Specifically, General Electric Company, 
Fairfield, CT, and as of September 1, 2015, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and 
Company, Wilmington, DE, have withdrawn as parties to this venture. The 
change in its nature and objectives is that the members of GCEP have 
amended the agreement between them to provide for fixed Sponsor 
participation fees, to establish comprehensive procedures for the 
disclosure and treatment of non-project patent rights, and to extend 
the termination of GCEP from August 31, 2016, to August 31, 2018.
    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 GCEP intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On March 12, 2003, GCEP 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 April 4, 
2003 (68 FR 16552).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 10, 
2014. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on July 24, 2014 (79 FR 43069).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-24604 Filed 9-28-15; 8:45 am]
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