[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38708-38709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17161]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 23, 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''), Medical Technology Enterprise 
Consortium (``MTEC'') 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, Appili Theraputics, Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA; 
BioTime, Inc., Alameda, CA; Chenega Healthcare Services, LLC, San 
Antonio, TX; Critical Innovations LLC, Venice, CA; Embody LLC, Norfolk, 
VA; Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS; NovaHep AB, Gothenburg, 
SWEDEN; Pulmotect, Inc., Houston, TX; QBiotics Limited, Taringa, 
Queensland, AUSTRALIA; SIMETRI, Inc., Winter Park, FL; SpherIngenics, 
Inc., Richmond, VA; Spherium Biomed SL, Barcelona, SPAIN; Techulon, 
Inc., Blacksburg, VA; The Trustees of Columbia University in the City 
of New York, New York, NY; The University of Texas Health Science 
Center at Houston, Houston, TX; UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; 
and Vapogenix, Inc., Houston, TX, have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, MedPro Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, TX; MetArmor, Inc., 
Glen Gardner, NJ; Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and 
Organovo, Inc., San Diego, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this 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 MTEC intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On May 9, 2014, MTEC 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 9, 
2014 (79 FR 32999).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 19, 
2017. A notice was published in the Federal

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Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on May 12, 2017 (82 FR 
22159).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2017-17161 Filed 8-14-17; 8:45 am]
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