Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on May 25, 2021, 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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (“IEEE”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing additions or changes to its standards development activities. 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, 17 new standards have been initiated and 2 existing standards are being revised. More detail regarding these changes can be found at: https://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/sba/may2021.html.

On September 17, 2004, IEEE 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 November 3, 2004 (69 FR 64105).

The last notification was filed with the Department on April 5, 2021. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on May 11, 2021 (86 FR 25887).