[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 246 (Wednesday, December 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79930-79931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-32344]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 23, 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''), ODPi, Inc. (``ODPi'') 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: Hortonworks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; International 
Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY; Infosys Limited, Bengaluru, 
INDIA;

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Pivotal Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; Altiscale, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; 
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA; General Electric Company, San Ramon, 
CA; WANdisco, Inc., San Ramon, CA; Ampool, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; 
DataTorrent, Santa Clara, CA; Squid Solutions, Inc., San Francisco, CA; 
TOSHIBA Corporation/Industrial ICT Solutions Company, Kawasaki, JAPAN; 
UNIFi Software, San Mateo, CA; XIILAB Co., Ltd., Seongnam Gyenggi, 
REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Z Data Inc., Newark, DE; Zettasset, Inc., Mountain 
View, CA; VMware Inc., Palo Alto, CA; SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC; 
Telstra, Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA; Capgemini Service SAS, Paris, 
FRANCE; Beijing AsiaInfo Smart Big Data Co., Ltd., Beijing, PEOPLE'S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA; NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Syncsort 
Incorporated, Woodcliff Lake, NJ; and Philippine Long Distance 
Telephone Company, Makati City, Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES.
    The general area of ODPi's planned activities is: (a) To accelerate 
the development and delivery of big data solutions by providing well-
defined open source and open data technologies that run across 
distributed devices (the ``Platform''); (b) to promote the Platform 
worldwide; (c) to develop and implement certification programs to 
create high customer awareness of, demand for, and compliant 
implementations of the Platform; and (d) to undertake such other 
activities as may from time to time be appropriate to further the 
purposes and achieve the goals set forth above.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-32344 Filed 12-22-15; 8:45 am]
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