Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on July 14, 2022, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 ( printed page 47006) et seq. (“the Act”), Bytecode Alliance Foundation 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, Liquid Reply, Gütersloh, GERMANY; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG; and Shanghai Wudun Info Tech Co., Ltd., Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, have been added 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 Bytecode Alliance Foundation intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On April 20, 2022, Bytecode Alliance Foundation 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 May 13, 2022 (87 FR 29379).
Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.