2013-06520. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-PXI Systems Alliance, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on February 22, 2013, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), PXI Systems Alliance, 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, C&H Technologies, Inc., Round Rock, TX; and VI Service Network, Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, LeCroy Corporation, Chestnut Ridge, NY; and Dow-Key Microwave, Ventura, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 PXI Systems Alliance, Inc. intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On November 22, 2000, PXI Systems 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 March 8, 2001 (66 FR 13971).

The last notification was filed with the Department on December 6, 2012. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 2, 2013 (78 FR 117).

Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.