[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 28 (Friday, February 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 9372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-02938]


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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 January 11, 2021, 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, Titian 
Software, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Alexander Lavrentios (individual), 
Wellesley, MA; Galapagos N.V., Vlaanderen, BELGIUM; Richard Lingard 
(individual), London, UNITED KINGDOM; Adil Khan (individual), 
Lutherville, MD; McKinsey & Company, Berlin, GERMANY; QIAGEN, Redwood 
City, CA; Sartorius, Gottingen, GERMANY; Mcule, Budapest, HUNGARY; 
MolPort, Riga, LATVIA; Apheris AI GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY; ZS Associates, 
Inc., San Mateo, CA; UMEDEOR Ltd., New York, NY; and US Pharmacopeia, 
Rockville, MD have been added as parties to this venture. Also, 
UniteLabs AG, Basel-Stadt, SWITZERLAND; Valtari Bio Inc., Austin, TX; 
KWS SAAT SE, Lower Saxony, GERMANY; Repositive, Cambridgeshire, UNITED 
KINGDOM; and Fulcrum Direct Ltd., Wales,UNITED KINGDOM have withdrawn 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 October 19, 
2020. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 19, 2020 (85 FR 73749).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-02938 Filed 2-11-21; 8:45 am]
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