2023-01344. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Open Source Imaging Consortium, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on November 22, 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”), Open Source Imaging Consortium, Inc. (“Open Source Imaging Consortium”) 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, Imbio, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; and Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA, have been added 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 Open Source Imaging Consortium intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On March 20, 2019, Open Source Imaging Consortium 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 April 12, 2019 (84 FR 14973).

The last notification was filed with the Department on July 13, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on August 30, 2022 (87 FR 53008).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.