Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on January 7, 2022, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (“CableLabs”) 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, Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc., Exton, PA has been added as a party to this venture. And, the objective of the venture has been updated as follows: “The objective of CableLabs is to gather, assess, and disseminate technical information of strategic importance to the cable television industry; to identify, plan, engage in, and fund the development of new technologies for the benefit of the industry, directly or in partnership with others; to transfer such technologies to the industry through reports, standards, specifications, industry conferences, training, online courses, software, seminars, workshops, licenses, loans of personnel, and other appropriate means; and to generally undertake research and development activity in furtherance of each of the foregoing.”

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 CableLabs intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On August 8, 1988, CableLabs 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 7, 1988 (53 FR 34593).

The last notification was filed with the Department on October 13, 2021. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 9, 2021 (86 FR 62205).