[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 24, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 17851]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08441]


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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 March 6, 2018, 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. (``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, Transformative AI Limited, London, UNITED KINGDOM; 
DISCNGINE, Paris, FRANCE; MediSapiens Ltd, Helsinki, FINLAND; Elemental 
Machines, Cambridge, MA; Corne Nous (individual), Eindhoven, THE 
NETHERLANDS; EPAM Systems Inc., Newtown, PA; Thomas Doerner 
(individual), Loerrach, GERMANY; RockStep Solutions Inc., Portland, ME; 
Chris Morris (individual), Warrington, UNITED KINGDOM; Gerd Blanke 
(individual), Essen, GERMANY; Christopher Hart (individual), Didsbury, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Manfred Remer (individual), Burwedel, GERMANY; and 
Data2Discovery, Bloomington, IN, have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmBH, Ingelheim am Rhein, 
GERMANY; Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Carlsbad, CA; Chris L. Waller 
(individual), Brookline, MA; and IPQ Analytics LLC, Kennett Square, PA, 
have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 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 December 14, 
2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on January 22, 2018 (83 FR 3026).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-08441 Filed 4-23-18; 8:45 am]
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