[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 26927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07990]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Rust Foundation

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 14, 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''), Rust Foundation 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, Institute of 
Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA; OpenUK, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Trace Machina, Inc., Palo Alto, 
CA; and Veecle GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY, have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Grafbase, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has withdrawn as a party 
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 Rust Foundation intends to file 
additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 14, 2022, Rust Foundation 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 May 13, 2022 (87 FR 29384).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 15, 
2023. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on February 5, 2024 (89 FR 7731).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-07990 Filed 4-15-24; 8:45 am]
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