DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993 -- ODVA, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on April 4, 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”), ODVA, Inc. (“ODVA”) 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, NIRECO CORPORATION, Tokyo,

JAPAN; BEIJING JIYUAN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD,
Beijing, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; WERMA Signaltechnik
GmbH + CO. KG, Rietheim-Weilheim, GERMANY; ISH
Ingenieursozietät GmbH, Kreuztal, North Rhine-Westphalia,
GERMANY; WITTENSTEIN cyber motor GmbH, Igersheim, BadenWürttemberg, GERMANY; Elementary Robotics Inc, South
Pasadena, CA; Synapticon GmbH, Schönaich, Baden-Würtemberg,
GERMANY; Eura Drives Electric Co., Ltd, Yantai, Shandong,
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; MYUNGBO CABLE, Hwaseong-si,
Gyeonggi-do, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TMSS France, RueilMalmaison, Haute de Seine, FRANCE, have been added as
parties to this venture.

Also, CMD Corporation, Appleton, WI; Hangzhou Hikrobot
Technology Co., Ltd., HangZhou, ZheJiang, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
OF CHINA; Sanwa Engineering Corp., Hsinchu County, TAIWAN,
have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 ODVA intends to file additional written
notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On June 21, 1995, ODVA 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 February 15, 1996 (61 FR
6039).
The last notification was filed with the Department on
December 8, 2023.

A notice was published in the Federal

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on February 5,
2024 (89 FR 7730).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations,
Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-13619 Filed: 6/20/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 6/21/2024]