[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 44 (Friday, March 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 11550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03659]


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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 December 2, 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, Lambda, San Jose, CA; Optivide, Inc., Dover, DE; 
MangoBoost Inc, Bellevue, WA; HP Inc., Palo Alto, CA; Task Aware AI, 
Mountain View, CA; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA; GPTshop.ai UG (limited), Ebern, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF 
GERMANY; Decompute, Saratoga, CA; FlexAI, SAS, Paris, FRENCH REPUBLIC; 
NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA; IEIT SYSTEMS Co., Ltd., Shandong, PEOPLE'S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA, Ingrasys Technology, Inc., Taoyuan City, REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA (TAIWAN); Saptadip Saha (individual member), Bishalgarh, REPUBLIC 
OF INDIA; Ethan Shama (individual member), Kingston, CANADA; Shaksam 
Consul (individual member), Mountain View, CA; Yaling Chen (individual 
member), Tainan City, REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN); Santosh Ganji 
(individual member), College Station, TX; Ching-Ting Huang (individual 
member), Tainan City, REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN); Abhinav Venigalla 
(individual member), San Francisco, CA; Dr. Piero Coronica (individual 
member), Garching bei Munchen, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; Claire 
Verity Hargrove (individual member), Los Angeles CA; Anusha Devulapally 
(individual member), University Park, PA; Mahmood Naderan-Tahan 
(individual member), Delft, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS; Abhinaba 
Chakraborty (individual member), Ghent, KINGDOM OF BELGIUM; Ahmed 
Khaled (individual member), Princeton, NJ; Amit Gupta (individual 
member), San Antonio, TX; Soumya Batra (individual member), New Delhi, 
REPUBLIC OF INDIA; Tamara Lehman (individual member), Boulder, CO; 
Amrita Bhattacharjee (individual member), Tempe, AZ; Soojung (Sue) Ryu 
(individual member), Gwanak-gu, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Ji-Hoon Oh 
(individual member), Eunpyeong-gu, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; and Tianhao Li 
(individual member), Durham, NC, have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, Rebellions Inc., Gyeonggi-do, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Inspur, 
Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; DEEPX Co., Inc., Gyeonggi-do, 
REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Femtosense, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; STMicroelectronics 
International NV, Geneva, SWISS CONFEDERATION; xFusion Digital 
Technologies, Co., Ltd., Zhenghou, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; SiWave 
Semiconductor Corporation, Vancouver, CANADA; Chip-hop Ltd., Guangzhou, 
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; and Foxconn Industrial internet Co., Ltd., 
Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, 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 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 June 13, 
2024. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on September 12, 2024 (89 FR 74290).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-03659 Filed 3-6-25; 8:45 am]
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