2017-22440. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on September 18, 2017, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc. 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, Bosch Security Systems, Inc., Fairport, NY; Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; Korean Broadcast System, Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Telstra, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Xytech Systems, Chatsworth, CA; and Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JAPAN, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Digital Media Centre B.V., Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS; IBM, Somers, NY; MNC Software, Inc., San Diego, CA; Real-Time Innovations (RTI), Sunnyvale, CA; SVT, Stockholm, SWEDEN; TransMedia Dynamics Ltd., Aylesbury, UNITED KINGDOM; Laurence Cook (individual member), Portland, OR; Gabor Fogacs (individual member), Budapest, HUNGARY; Laurance Hughes (individual member), Sydney, AUSTRALIA; Douglas McGee (individual member), Columbus, OH; Christiano Nuernberg (individual member), Cambridge, MA; and Joseph Spillman (individual member), Temecula, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc. intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On March 28, 2000, Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc. 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 June 29, 2000 (65 FR 40127).

The last notification was filed with the Department on June 26, 2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on July 20, 2017 (82 FR 33516).

Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.