83 FR 40084 - Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 156 (August 13, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 156 (Monday, August 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40084-40085]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17280]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 23, 2018, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), IMS Global Learning Consortium, 
Inc. (``IMS Global'') 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, AccelerED, Bethesda, MD; Alief Independent School 
District, Houston, TX; Cobb County School District, Smyrna, GA; Essay 
Assay, Inc. dba ecree, Durham, NC; Idaho Digital Learning, Boise, ID; 
Italian Quality Company IQC Srl, Bologna, ITALY; Kyoto College of 
Graduate Studies for Informatics, Kyoto City, JAPAN; LearnPlatform, 
Raleigh, NC; Santillana Global, S.L., Madrid, SPAIN; University of 
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and Wichita State University Office for 
Workforce, Professional and Community Education, Wichita, KS, have been 
added as parties to this venture.
    Also, ProExam, New York, NY; Macmillan Learning, New York, NY; 
Hancom Communication, Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KOREA; Funda[ccedil][atilde]o 
Get[uacute]lio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL; and Cerego, San 
Francisco, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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.

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Membership in this group research project remains open, and IMS Global 
intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On April 7, 2000, IMS Global 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 September 13, 2000 (65 FR 55283).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 30, 
2018. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 24, 2018 (83 FR 17850).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-17280 Filed 8-10-18; 8:45 am]
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