[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 38709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17159]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Digital Manufacturing Design Innovation 
Institute

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 26, 2017, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Digital Manufacturing Design 
Innovation Institute (``DMDII'') has 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, the following parties have been added as 
members to this venture: Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, 
MI; University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; AMI 
Global, Las Vegas, NV; Amper Technologies, Evanston, IL; Autodesk, San 
Rafael, CA; C-Labs Corporation, Bellevue, WA; Connected Global Factory 
(SearchLight), Ann Arbor, MI; Dozuki, San Luis Obispo, CA; E-gineering, 
Indianapolis, IN; Godwin Global, Charlotte, NC; NarrativeWave, Irvine, 
CA; Omative, Cincinnati, OH; Quality Tools & Abrasives Inc., Elk Grove 
Village, IL; SensrTrx, St. Louis, MO; Tulip, Milwaukee, WI; TYGES 
International, Williamsburg, VA; Universal Technical Resources, Cherry 
Hill, NJ; Verena Solutions LLC, Chicago, IL; and Warwick Analytics, Los 
Altos, CA, have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, VTOL, Oak Lawn, IL; Affinegy, Inc., Austin, TX; Allied 
Plastics, Twin Lakes, WI; RECON Services, East Berlin, PA; Bi-Link, 
Bloomingdale, IN; Graphicast, Jaffrey, NH; Cummins, Columbus, IN; UL 
LLC, Chicago, IL; Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA), Crystal 
Lake, IL; McMaster Carr Supply Chain Company, Elmhurst, IL; Pella 
Corporation, Pella, IA; ABB, Inc, Bloomfield, CT; Moog, East Aurora, 
NY; BAE Systems Land & Armaments, L.P. York, PA; Teradyne, North 
Reading, MA; Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, PA; 
University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and University of Louisville, 
Louisville, KY, have withdrawn as a parties to this venture.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 DMDII intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 5, 2016, DMDII 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 
March 9, 2016 (81 FR 12525).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 31, 
2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 16, 2017 (82 FR 14033).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2017-17159 Filed 8-14-17; 8:45 am]
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