Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-ODVA, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on April 28, 2022, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), ODVA, Inc. (“ODVA”) 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, Sanwa Engineering Corp., Hsinchu County, TAIWAN (R.O.C.); CMD Corporation, Appleton, WI; JSL Technology Co., Ltd., Ashikaga City, JAPAN; Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Perinet GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY; Panasonic Software Development Center Dalian Co., Ltd., Dalian, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Neurala, Inc., Boston, MA; CodeWrights GmbH, Karlsruhe, GERMANY; Aber Instruments Ltd, Aberystwyth, UNITED KINGDOM; Georg Fischer Piping Systems Ltd., Schaffhausen, SWITZERLAND; and Telsonic AG, Bronschhofen, SWITZERLAND, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH & Co KG, Bruehl, GERMANY, has withdrawn as a party to this venture.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 ODVA intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On June 21, 1995, ODVA 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 February 15, 1996 (61 FR 6039).

The last notification was filed with the Department on January 4, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 13, 2022 (87 FR 2177).