[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 168 (Friday, August 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53400-53401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18973]


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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 July 21, 2020, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Section 4301 et seq. (the ``Act''), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 
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, Impact Business 
Information Services Inc. (IBIS Inc), Princeton, NJ; Stichting Triall 
Foundation, THE NETHERLANDS; Good Clinical Practice Alliance--Europe 
(GCPA), Leuven (Kessel-Lo), BELGIUM; Zifo Technologies Inc., Deerfield, 
IL; Sainy Alafaireet (individual member), Columbia, MO; Anderson Ifill 
(individual member), Willingham, UNITED KINGDOM; Lextech Global 
Services, Downers Grove, IL; Roger Frechette (individual member), 
Reading, MA; RAND Europe Community Interest Company, Cambridge, UNITED 
KINGDOM; QC

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Ware Corp., Palo Alto, CA; Bowhead Health, Inc., Kanato, CANADA; and 
Jason Mesut (individual member), Twickenham, UNITED KINGDOM have been 
added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Cambridge Semantics Incorporated, Boston, MA; WuXi AppTec, 
Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Phenomic AI Inc., Toronto, 
CANADA; and Avantor Performance Materials (formerly VWR International), 
Darmstadt, GERMANY have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 April 24, 
2020. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on May 19, 2020 (85 FR 29975).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-18973 Filed 8-27-20; 8:45 am]
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