Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-MLCommons Association

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Federal RegisterAug 23, 2021
86 Fed. Reg. 47151 (Aug. 23, 2021)

Notice is hereby given that on July 12, 2021, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. Section 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, Sanjay Purushotham (individual member), Baltimore, MD; Rebellions Inc., Gyeonggi-do, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Nutanix, San Jose, CA; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (ELO), Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Sam Ade Jacobs (individual member), Livermore, CA; Nel Swanepoel (individual member), London, UNITED KINGDOM; and Ayoub Elhanchi (individual member), Brossard, CANADA have joined 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 April 28, 2021. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on May 25, 2021 (86 FR 28148).

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 2021-18020 Filed 8-20-21; 8:45 am]

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