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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 STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION]

Notice is hereby given that, on [date notification is 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”), [name of standards development organization (“abbreviation of name”)] has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing additions or changes to its standards development activities. 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, [provide an explanation, in general terms, of any additions or changes to the organization's standards development activities since the last notification].

On [date the organization's original notification was received by the Department], [abbreviation of name] 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 [date that the Federal Register notice for the original notification was published, followed by the Federal Register cite in parentheses]. {Note: When providing a Federal Register cite, use the abbreviation FR, as in 69 FR 23456.}

The last notification was filed with the Department on [date that the organization's last notification was received by the Department]. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on [date that the Federal Register notice for the last notification was published, followed by the Federal Register cite in parentheses]. {Note: This last paragraph is omitted for the first supplemental notification.}


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Patricia A. Brink
Deputy Director of Operations
Antitrust Division