[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 6 (Thursday, January 9, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1183-1184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00154]


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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 November 29, 2019, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993,

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15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), 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, American Society 
of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, VA; Richard Norman (individual 
member), Gjoik, NORWAY; The Cure Parkinson's Trust, London, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Zofia Jordan (individual member), Welwyn Garden City, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA; Arctoris Ltd., Oxford, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Statice GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY; Valtari Bio Inc., 
Austin, TX; LabVoice, Durham, NC; and Nick Juty (individual member), 
Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM, have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Clarity Genomics BVBA, Berse, BELGIUM; uFraction8 Ltd., 
Falkirk, UNITED KINGDOM; Genialis Inc., Houston, TX; Devendra Deshmukh 
(individual member), Shrewsbury, MA; Envision Biotechnology Inc., 
Grandsville, MI; MediSapiens Ltd., Helsinki, FINLAND; and Pharmacelera, 
Sant Cugat del Valles, SPAIN, have withdrawn as parties to this 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 September 
10, 2019. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on October 17, 2019 (84 FR 55586).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-00154 Filed 1-8-20; 8:45 am]
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