[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8242-8243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02283]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--MLCommons Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 22, 2024, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), MLCommons Association 
(``MLCommons'') 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, Blaine Rister (individual member), Burlingame, CA; Wayne 
Wei Wang (individual member), Hong Kong, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; 
Liu Ke (individual member), San Jose, CA; Chen-Yu Ho (individual 
member), Changhua County, TAIWAN; OMOIKANE A.I. Ltd., London, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Yue Hu (individual member), Los Altos, CA; and Wiwynn 
Corporation, New Taipei City, TAIWAN have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, Baidu USA LLC, Sunnyvale, CA; and Deci.ai, Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 
have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 MLCommons intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On September 15, 2020, MLCommons filed its original notification 
pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department

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of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on September 29, 2020 (85 FR 61032).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on November 2, 
2023. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on December 15, 2023 (88 FR 86939).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-02283 Filed 2-5-24; 8:45 am]
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