2023-01393. Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-ODVA, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on January 5, 2023, 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, Nanjing Decowell Automation Co., Ltd., Nanjing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; HollySys Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Tool-Temp AG, Sulgen, SWITZERLAND; VEGA Grieshaber KG, Schiltach, GERMANY; Magswitch Automation Company, Superior, CO; Control Concepts Inc., Chanhassen, MN; and Shanghai Flexem Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, MTT Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN, has withdrawn as a party to this venture.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 October 17, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 8, 2022 (87 FR 67490).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.