[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 71 (Friday, April 14, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18012-18013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07590]


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 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The Open Group, L.L.C.

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 30, 2017, 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 Open Group, L.L.C. (``TOG'') 
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, ABB Automation GmbH, Minden, GERMANY; Aramco Services 
Company, Houston, TX; ARC Advisory Group, Inc., Dedham, MA; ARCHIT, 
Valby, DENMARK; Aspen Technology, Inc., Bedford, MA; BASF Corporation, 
Florham, NJ; Belcan, LLC, Oldsmar, FL; CentraleSup[eacute]lec, 
Ch[acirc]tenay-Malabry, FRANCE; Cirrus Link Solutions, LLC, Spring 
Hill, KS; CTPartners S.A., Warszawa, POLAND; Emerson Process Management 
LLLP, Round Rock, TX; eVOLVE Gest[atilde]o Empresarial, Barueri, 
BRAZIL; General Electric, Niskayuna, NY; Inductive Automation, Folsom, 
CA; Infinite Dimensions Integration, Inc., West Plains, MO; Intel 
Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; it SolutionCrew GmbH, Nussbaumen, 
SWITZERLAND; Koch Industries, Inc., Wichita, KS; Leidse 
Onderwijsinstellingen BV, Leiderdorp, THE NETHERLANDS; McLeod 
Consultancy Pty. Ltd., Canberra, AUSTRALIA; Merck & Co., Inc., 
Kenilworth, NJ; Mocana Corporation, San Francisco, CA; NxGN Pty., Ltd., 
Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA; nxtControl GmbH, Leobersdorf, AUSTRIA; OMEC 
Sp. z.o.o, Warsaw, POLAND; Praxair, Inc., Tanawanda, NY; Process 
Systems Enterprise Ltd., London, UNITED KINGDOM; Radix U.S., LLC, 
Houston, TX; Relcom, Inc., Forest Grove, OR; Rogerson Kratos, Irvine, 
CA; Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA; Shenzhen Expressway 
Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA; Siemens Industry, Inc., Spring House, PA; Silver Storm Solutions 
SL, Valladolid, SPAIN; Skayl, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ; 
Soci[eacute]t[eacute] G[eacute]n[eacute]rale S.A., Paris, FRANCE; 
StackFrame, LLC, Sanford, FL; Strategy Alliance B.V., Puttershoek, THE 
NETHERLANDS; The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI; and Yokogawa 
Electric Corporation, Musashino, JAPAN, have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, BEDROCKmg, Hawthorn, AUSTRALIA; CALCULEX, Inc., Las Cruces, 
NM; Cordial Business Advisers AB, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Dividend Group 
Corp., Toronto, CANADA; EOH Mthombo (Pty) Ltd. t/a Wonderware, 
Bedfordview, SOUTH AFRICA; Eskom Holdings, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA; 
Exostrategies, Inc., Woodland, CO; FEAC Institute, Monument, CO; 
Genesis Housing Association, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Incepture 
S.a.r.l., Rabat, MOROCCO; Link Consulting, S.A., Lisbon, PORTUGAL; 
Mariner Partners, Inc., Saint John, CANADA; Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge, MA; nVision IT (Pty) Ltd., Sandton, SOUTH 
AFRICA; Ohio University, Athens, OH; Osrodek Studiow nad Cyfrowym 
Panstwem, Lodz, POLAND; Processworks Pte., Ltd., Singapore, SINGAPORE; 
Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA; State Farm Mutual Automobile 
Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL; Time-Critical Technologies, Natick, 
MA; and Wispa Systems-Parsons Brinckerhoff Africa, Johannesburg, SOUTH 
AFRICA, have withdrawn as parties to 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 TOG intends

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to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On April 21, 1997, TOG 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 June 13, 
1997 (62 FR 32371).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 24, 
2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on February 27, 2017 (82 FR 11943).

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