[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 125 (Friday, June 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 54046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14255]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Pistoia Alliance, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 28, 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''), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 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, First Line 
Software, Wynnum, AUSTRALIA; Open Phacts Foundation, Cambridge, UNITED 
KINGDOM; and Excelra, Iselin, NJ, have been added as parties to the 
venture.
    Also, TetraScience Inc., Boston, MA; Terra Quantum, Rorschach, 
SWITZERLAND; Vortex Biosciences, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; 
Schrodinger, New York, NY; and Sanofi, Cambridge, MA, have withdrawn as 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 Pistoia Alliance, Inc. intends to 
file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On May 28, 2009, Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 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 July 15, 2009 (74 FR 34364).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 7, 
2024. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal 
Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on April 16, 2024 (89 FR 
26923).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-14255 Filed 6-27-24; 8:45 am]
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