Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on November 21, 2025, pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), The Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation operating under the name of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (“AIM Photonics”) 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, Baylor University, Waco, TX; President and Fellows of Harvard College acting through John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Allston, MA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando, FL; and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Bryan, TX, have been added as parties to this venture.
Also, Mosaic Microsystems, LLC, Rochester, NY; AdvR Inc., Bozeman, MT; Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation, San Jose, CA; Infinera Corporation, San Jose, CA; ficon TEC Corporation, San Clemente, CA; and ( printed page 46168) Syntec Technologies, Inc., Rochester, NY, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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. Membership in this group research project remains open, and AIM Photonics intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On June 16, 2016, AIM Photonics 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 25, 2016 (81 FR 48450).
The last notification was filed with the Department on August 18, 2025. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on January 20, 2026 (91 FR 2373).
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.