Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on July 18, 2024, pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (“CREaTe”) 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, Watts & Fisher Pty Ltd, Mandurah, WA; Alkemio, San Francisco, CA; Fluid Photonics Corporation, Lindenhurst, NY; MTL Corp., Bloomington, MN; and Precision Combustion, Inc., North Haven, CT, 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 CREaTe intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership. ( printed page 82630)
On April 22, 2022, CREaTe 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 29384).
The last notification was filed with the Department on April 12, 2024. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on June 28, 2024 (89 FR 54042).
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.