Notice2022-10268

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Bytecode Alliance Foundation

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May 13, 2022

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10268]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Bytecode Alliance Foundation

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 20, 2022, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Bytecode Alliance Foundation has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the 
parties 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: Amazon Services LCC, Seattle, WA; Arm, Cambridge, 
UNITED KINGDOM; AsmNext, Incheon, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Cosmonic, 
Arlington, VA 22207; DFINITY, Palo Alto, CA; EDJX, Raleigh, NC; Embark 
Studios, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Fastly, San Francisco, CA; Fermyon, 
Longmont, CO; Futurewei, Santa Clara, CA; Google, Mountain View, CA; 
Igalia, A Coru[ntilde]a, SPAIN; InfinyOn, Saratoga, CA; Intel, Santa 
Clara, CA; Microsoft, Redmond, WA; Midokura, Tokyo, JAPAN; Mozilla, San 
Francisco, CA; Profian, Raleigh, NC; Rackner, Silver Spring, MD; 
Shopify, Ottowa, Ontario CANADA; Siemens, Princeton, NJ; SingleStore, 
San Francisco, CA; Stackblitz, San Francisco, CA; Suborbital, Ottawa, 
Ontario CANADA; Tangram, Brookline, MA; University of California San 
Diego, La Jolla, CA; and VMWare, Palo Alto, CA. The general area of 
Bytecode Alliance Foundation's planned activity is (a) establish a 
capable, secure platform that allows application developers and service 
providers to confidently run untrusted code, on any infrastructure, for 
any operating system or device (the ``Platform''); (b) establish, 
maintain, seek support for, and develop infrastructure projects and 
technical and infrastructure collaboration initiatives (the 
``Projects'') related to the Platform, and such other initiatives as 
may be appropriate to support, enable and promote the Platform; (c) 
encourage and increase user adoption, involvement with, and 
contribution to, the Platform; (d) facilitate communication and 
collaboration among users and developers of the Platform and the 
Bytecode Alliance; (e) support and maintain policies set by the Board; 
(f) manage and steward intellectual property rights related to the 
Platform; and (g) undertake such other activities as may from time to 
time be appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the goals set 
forth above.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-10268 Filed 5-12-22; 8:45 am]
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