[Federal Register: October 14, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 198)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993 Biotechnology Research and Development 
Corporation (``BRDC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 23, 2003, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Biotechnology Research and 
Development Corporation (``BRDC'') 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, PIC International PLC, San Francisco, CA 
has changed its name to Sygen International PLC; and American Home 
Products Corporation, Parsippany, NJ has changed its name to Wyeth. 
Also, Schering-Plough Animal Health Corporation, Madison, NJ; Baxcare 
Health Corporation, Round Lake, Il; Maxygen, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; and 
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New Haven, CT are no longer parties to 
BRDC.
    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 BRDC intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 13, 1988, BRDC 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 12, 
1988 (53 FR 16919).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 1, 
2001. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on September 25, 2001 (66 FR 49042).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-25874 Filed 10-10-03; 8:45 am]

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