[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 52095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13636]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Alliance for OpenUSD Series LLC

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 25, 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''), Alliance for OpenUSD Series LLC 
(``AOUSD'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing additions 
or changes to its standards development activities. 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, AOUSD has formed two additional Working 
Groups (``WGs'') in March 2024: a Materials WG and a Geometry WG. The 
Materials WG will standardize the description of materials in OpenUSD. 
Its initial focus and first deliverable will be the USD Material 
Interchange Specification, which will comprise a set of patterns and 
BSDF nodes comprising the MaterialX standard libraries. The Geometry WG 
will define and evolve the strategy for the description of 3D geometry 
in OpenUSD. Its first deliverable will be the USD Transformable 3D 
Geometry Specification that will describe the surfaces and volume 
representations, spatial transformations, rules of determining primary 
visibility, and other properties required for imaging those 
representations.
    On October 30, 2023, AOUSD 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 
December 15, 2023 (88 FR 86939).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director, Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-13636 Filed 6-20-24; 8:45 am]
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