2022-25497. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Pistoia Alliance, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on October 26, 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”), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 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, Bill Palumbo (Individual), Ambler, PA; Pangaea, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Kamini Trivedi (Individual), Grand Island, NY; Agile ISR, Hoschton, GA; Healx, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; Boehringer Ingleheim. Ingelheim am Rhein, GERMANY; A4BEE, New York, NY; Kvantify, København S, DENMARK; Ersilia, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; BLS Group, Cormano, ITALY; Sheela Upadhyaya (Individual), Harrow, UNITED KINGDOM; and Hall Gregg (Individual), Chattanooga, TN have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Waters Corporation, Milford, MA; Dante Labs, New York, NY; JSR North America Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, PA; Procter & Gamble, Mason, OH; Inari, Cambridge, MA; Riffyn Nexus, Oakland, CA; Iktos, Paris, FRANCE; and Rapid Novor, Waterloo, CANADA have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 Pistoia Alliance, Inc. intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On May 28, 2009, Pistoia Alliance, 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 July 15, 2009 (74 FR 34364).

The last notification was filed with the Department on August 4, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 9, 2022 (87 FR 67715).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director, Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.