2017-26217. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation

Notice is hereby given that, on November 14, 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”), Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation (“HSA Foundation”) 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, Institute of Computer Architecture, School of ZZCS, Peking University, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Xiamen University, Xiamen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Huaqiao University, Xiamen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Jimei University (Engineering College), Xiamen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; and Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, LG Electronics, Inc., Seoul, KOREA; Swarm64 GMBH, Berlin, GERMANY; Allinea Software Ltd., Warwick, UNITED KINGDOM; MediaTek USA Inc., Hsinchu City, TAIWAN; and Ceva Inc., Mountain View, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 HSA Foundation intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On August 31, 2012, HSA Foundation 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 October 11, 2012 (77 FR 61786).

The last notification was filed with the Department on March 13, 2017. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on April 4, 2017 (82 FR 16418).

Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.