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U.S. Department of Justice
Antitrust Division

NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE NATIONAL COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND
PRODUCTION ACT OF 1993 – [NAME OF JOINT VENTURE]

Notice is hereby given that on [insert date notification received and stamped in Premerger Notification Unit], 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 [name of joint venture (“abbreviation of name”)] has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities and nationalities of the parties to the production venture and of any person who controls a party to the venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.

Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties to the venture are: [list parties in one continuous sentence, providing for each party its name, city, and either the two letter U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state or, if a foreign-located entity, the name of the country in all capital letters, separating each party with a semicolon]. The general area(s) of [abbreviation of name]'s planned activity (is)(are) [describe general area(s) of planned activity].

 

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Patricia A. Brink
Deputy Director of Operations
Antitrust Division