[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 240 (Friday, December 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 86938]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27575]



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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, 2023, 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, Compleo Technologies LLC, Newtown, CT; Core4ce LLC, 
Reston, VA; KRI at Northeastern University LLC, Burlington, MA; and 
North American Rescue LLC, Greer, SC, have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Alltropic Tech, Halethorpe, MD; California Institute for 
Biomedical Research, La Jolla, CA; GenArraytion Inc., Rockville, MD; 
Integrated Biotherapeutics, Inc., Rockville, MD; International Business 
Machines Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY; Luna Labs USA LLC, 
Charlottesville, VA; Mesa Tech International, San Diego, CA; Qorvo 
Biotechnologies LLC, Bend, OR; Sentinel Analytics Software, Inc., 
Davis, CA; SGSD Partners LLC, Washington, DC; Synthetic Genomics 
Vaccines, Inc., La Jolla, CA; Unify R&D, Elkridge, MD; and Vector RX 
LLC, Elkridge, MD, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 17, 
2023. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on October 5, 2023 (88 FR 69231).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-27575 Filed 12-14-23; 8:45 am]
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