[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 89992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29901]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 14, 2016, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 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, Eagle Genomics 
Ltd., Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; Stuart Chalk (individual member), 
Jacksonville, FL; Pharmacelera, Sant Cugat del Valles, SPAIN; Pine 
Biotech Inc., New Orleans, LA; MEDEXPRIM, Labastide-Beauvoir, FRANCE; 
Insightomics, Lisbon, PORTUGAL; and Benchling, San Francisco, CA, have 
been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA has withdrawn as a party to 
this venture.
    In addition, an existing member, IP & Science Business of Thomson 
Reuters, has changed its name to Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, PA.
    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 Pistoia Alliance, Inc. intends to 
file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On May 28, 2009, Pistoia Alliance, 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 July 15, 2009 (74 FR 34364).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 19, 
2016. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on September 20, 2016 (81 FR 64506).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
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