[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 188 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26047]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Biotechnology Research and Development
Corporation (``BRDC'')
Notice is hereby given that, on March 9, 1998, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Biotechnology Research and
Development Corporation (``BRDC'') has filed written notifications
simultaneously with the Attorney general and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 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, Schering-Plough
Animal Health Corporation, Madison, NJ has been added as a party 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 Biotechnology Research and
Development Corporation (``BRDC'') intends to file additional written
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
On April 12, 1998, Biotechnology research and Development
Corporation (``BRDC'') 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 May 12,
1998 (53 FR 16919).
The last notification was filed with the Department on May 9, 1997.
A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b)
of the Act on June 5, 1997 (62 FR 30882).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-26047 Filed 9-28-98; 8:45 am]
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