96-23699. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993Inter Company Collaboration for AIDS Drug Development

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 48982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23699]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Inter Company Collaboration for AIDS Drug 
Development

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 23, 1996, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Inter Company 
Collaboration for AIDS Drug Development (The Collaboration) filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission. 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.
    The Collaboration is planning to have an independent third party 
collect and distribute information about the amount of resources its 
members devote to various AIDS-related research and development 
activities. It is the Collaboration's intent to use the results of the 
survey to identify potential areas in which further cooperation among 
its members may be appropriate pursuant to the Act. The company 
conducting the survey is a nonprofit institution with extensive 
experience in conducting confidential surveys of parmaceutical 
companies. A questionnaire will be sent to each of the member companies 
of the Collaboration. Upon receipt of the completed questionnaires, the 
company will compile the data and circulate aggregated results to each 
member of the collaboration in a manner that prevents the 
identification of the company that submitted particular data.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activities of the Collaboration. Membership in the Collaboration 
remains open, and the Collaboration intends to file additional written 
notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On May 27, 1993, the Collaboration 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 6, 1993 (58 FR 36223). The last notification was filed 
with the Department on June 26, 1996. A notice was published in the 
Federal Register on July 23, 1996 (61 FR 38215).
Constance D. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-23699 Filed 9-16-96; 8:45 am]
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