[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 14, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 69800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32339]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Pharmacia Biotech: Arrayed Primer Extension
Research Consortium
Notice is hereby given that, on July 15, 1999, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Pharmacia Biotech: Arrayed Primer
Extension Research Consortium has filed written notifications
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 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, on December 31,
1997, one of the original participants of the Consortium, Pharmacia
Biotech Inc., merged with and into Amersham Life Science Inc. At that
time, the surviving corporation, Amersham Life Science Inc., changed
its name to Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Inc. As a result of the merger,
Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Inc., Piscataway, NJ, assumed all rights and
obligations of Pharmacia Biotech, Inc.
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 Pharmacia Biotech: Arrayed Primer
Extension Research Consortium intends to file additional written
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
On September 26, 1995, Pharmacia Biotech: Arrayed Primer Extension
Research 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 December 13,
1995 (60 FR 64078).
The last notification was filed with the Department on September
29, 1995. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
section 6(b) of the Act on December 13, 1995 (60 FR 64078).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-32339 Filed 12-13-99; 8:45 am]
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