2020-08120. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-ODVA, INC.

Notice is hereby given that, on April 6, 2020, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), ODVA, Inc. (“ODVA”) 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, Norgren Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA; M2M craft Co., Ltd., Sapporo, JAPAN; Myostat Motion Control, Newmarket, ON, CANADA; FMS Force Measuring Systems AG, Oberglatt, SWITZERLAND; Mewes & Partner GmbH, Hennigsdorf, GERMANY; and Hydronix Limited, Normandy, UNITED KINGDOM, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Polytec GmbH & Co. KG, Waldbronn, GERMANY; Aerotech Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; and Toyo Denki Seizo KK, Tokyo, JAPAN, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 ODVA intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On June 21, 1995, ODVA 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 February 15, 1996 (61 FR 6039).

The last notification was filed with the Department on January 15, 2020. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 31, 2020 (85 FR 5706).

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.