[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 10751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-04841]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium
Notice is hereby given that, on January 18, 2018, pursuant to
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Medical Technology
Enterprise Consortium (``MTEC'') 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, Bramante Bioscience, Elmira Heights, NY;
California Institute of Biomedical Research (Calibr), La Jolla, CA;
CIYIS, LLC, Atlanta, GA; Combat Medical Systems, Harrisburg, NC;
Cortical Metrics, LLC, Carrboro, NC; Duke University, Durham, NC;
Friedman Research Corporation, Austin, TX; General Dynamics Information
Technology, Inc., Fairfax, VA; Indiana Biosciences Research Institute,
Indianapolis, IN; Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Ischemix, Inc.,
North Grafton, MA; Israel Innovation Authority, Airport City, ISRAEL;
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; NeuroRx, Inc., Wilmington,
DE; Prytime Medical Devices, Inc., Boerne, TX; Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; Sheltagen Medical Ltd,
Atlit, ISRAEL; Studio Kinection, Inc. dba ``Kinection'', Napa, CA;
TearSolutions, Inc., Charlottesville, VA; The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory, LLC, Laurel, MD; The Regents of the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; The University of Alabama at
Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; The University of Texas at San Antonio, San
Antonio, TX; The Washington University, St. Louis, MO; TheraNova, LLC,
San Francisco, CA; Thought Leadership and Innovation Foundation (TLI
Foundation), McLean, VA; Tympanogen, Inc., Williamsburg, VA; United
Solutions, LLC, Rockville, MD; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, VA; William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX;
and Williams-Jones Consulting, Greenville, SC; have been added as
parties to this venture.
Also, CUBRC, Inc., Buffalo, NY; GeoVax, Inc., Smyrna, GA; KIYATEC,
Inc., Greenville, SC; Manzanita Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Woodside, CA;
Spherium Biomed SL, Barcelona, SPAIN, and Weinberg Medical Physics LLC,
North Bethesda, MD; 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 MTEC intends to file additional
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On May 9, 2014, MTEC 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 June 9,
2014 (79 FR 32999).
The last notification was filed with the Department on October 6,
2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 6, 2017 (82 FR 51433).
Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-04841 Filed 3-9-18; 8:45 am]
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