[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 233 (Wednesday, December 6, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 57616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-26215]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Medical CBRN Defense Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 13, 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 CBRN Defense 
Consortium (``MCDC'') 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, Medicago, USA, Durham, NC; Lynntech, Inc., College 
Station, TX; Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA; Valaria Technical Consultants, 
LLC, Westminster, MD; Integrity Bio, Inc., Camarillo, CA; California 
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; General Atomics, San Diego, CA; 
Conductive Technologies, Inc., York, PA; Dyadic International, Jupiter, 
FL; Excet, Inc., Springfield, VA; INanoBio Inc., Tempe, AZ; SynerGene 
Therapeutics, Inc., Potomac, MD; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; 
Celdara Medical, LLC, Lebanon, NH; Janus-I Science, Inc., Carlsbad, CA; 
Pharm-Olam International Ltd, Houston, TX; Vaxess Technologies, Inc., 
Allston, MA; HORIBA Instruments, Inc., Edison, NY; Sentinel Analytics 
Software, Inc., Davis, CA; Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA; Tonix 
Pharmaceuticals, New York, NY; Just Biotherapeutics, Inc., Seattle, WA; 
General Electric Company, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY; The 
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rector 
and Visitors of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, have 
been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Tech62, Fairfax, VA; Joint Research and Development, Inc., 
Stafford, VA; ProModel Corporation, Allentown, PA; and Proteos, 
Kalamazoo, MI, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 MCDC intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 13, 2015, MCDC 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 
January 6, 2016 (81 FR 513).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 10, 
2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on August 15, 2017 (82 FR 38709).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2017-26215 Filed 12-5-17; 8:45 am]
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