[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 179 (Monday, September 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43568-43569]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19791]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open Platform for NFV Project, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 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''), Open Platform for NFV 
Project, Inc. (``Open Platform for NFV Project'') 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, Institute for 
Information Industry, Taipei, TAIWAN, has been added as a party to this 
venture.
    Also, Beijing Internet Institute, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA, has withdrawn as a party to this venture.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 Open Platform for NFV Project 
intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On October 17, 2014, Open Platform for NFV Project 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 November 14, 2014 (79 FR 68301).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 30, 
2017. A notice was published in the Federal

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Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on June 28, 2017 (82 FR 
29328).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2017-19791 Filed 9-15-17; 8:45 am]
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