[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 26925]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07994]


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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 April 3, 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, Turaco Strategy, LLC, Boulder, CO; Cisco Systems Inc., 
San Jose, CA; Firmus Metal International Pte Ltd., Singapore, 
SINGAPORE; Ferroceria LLC, Vashon, WA; Andreea Bodnari (individual 
member), Brooklyn, NY; Percy Liang (individual member), Stanford, CA; 
Guanqun Yang, (individual member), Hoboken, NJ; Charlie Tan (individual 
member), Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM; Sergei Cheparukhin (individual 
member), London, UNITED KINGDOM; Frederik Mallmann-Trenn (individual 
member), London, UNITED KINGDOM; Shafee Mohammed (individual member), 
Hyderabad, INDIA; Alexander Kleinsorge, (individual member), Wildau, 
GERMANY; Cyril Weerasooriya, (individual member), Rochester, NY; Joseph 
Marvin Imperial (individual member), Bath, UNITED KINGDOM; Robert 
Scholz (individual member), Paris, FRANCE; Collin McCarthy (individual 
member), Truckee, CA; and Ray Simar (individual member), Richmond, TX, 
have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Biren Technology, San Jose, CA, has withdrawn as a party to 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 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 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 January 22, 
2024. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on February 6, 2024 (89 FR 8242).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-07994 Filed 4-15-24; 8:45 am]
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