[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 187 (Monday, September 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58297-58298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24525]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Node.js Foundation

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 17, 2015, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Node.js Foundation 
(``Node.js Foundation'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the identities of the parties to the venture and (2) the nature and 
objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose 
of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
to the venture are: npm, Inc., Oakland, CA; StrongLoop, Inc., San 
Mateo, CA; YLD! Limited, London, UNITED KINGDOM; International Business 
Machines Corporation, Endicott, NY; DigitalOcean, New York, NY; Joyent, 
Inc., San Francisco, CA; Codefresh, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; Fidelity, 
Boston, MA; Sauce Labs, San Francisco, CA; Progress Software, Bedford, 
MA; Microsoft, Redmond, WA; PayPal, San Jose, CA; SAP SE., Walldorf, 
GERMANY; Famous Industries, Inc., San Francisco, CA; nearForm, 
Waterford, IRELAND; GoDaddy.com, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ; NodeSource, Inc., 
Anaheim, CA; Intel, Santa Clara, CA; Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL; and 
Apigee Corporation, San Jose, CA. The general area of Node.js 
Foundation's planned activity is to: (a) Enable widespread adoption and 
help accelerate development of open source, scalable network 
application technologies that run across distributed devices (the 
``Platform''); (b) promote the Platform worldwide; and (c) undertake 
such other activities as may from time to time be appropriate to 
further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth above. In support 
of such Purpose, Node.js Foundation may engage in some or all of the 
following activities: (a) Drive the development of, disseminate, 
support and maintain the

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Platform; (b) create various printed and/or electronic materials for 
distribution to members and non-members; (c) maintain its own Web site; 
(d) coordinate the promotion of the Platform among members and non-
members, as well as create basic marketing promotional collateral 
(e.g., both Web pages as well as tangible materials); and (e) undertake 
those other activities as the Board may from time to time approve 
consistent with and in furtherance of the Purpose.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-24525 Filed 9-25-15; 8:45 am]
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