Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--Cellular V2X Device-to-Device Communication Consortium

Suzanne Morris
Department of Justice
9 November 2018

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 217 (Thursday, November 8, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55911-55912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24432]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Cellular V2X Device-to-Device Communication 
Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 1, 2018, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Cellular V2X Device-to-
Device Communication Consortium (``Cellular V2X D2D Consortium'') 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: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI; General Motors 
LLC, Detroit, MI; Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc., Superior 
Township, MI; Nissan Technical Center N.A., Farmington Hills, MI; and 
Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA. The general area of Cellular V2X D2D 
Consortium's planned activity is to fund and conduct a program called 
Cellular V2X Performance Assessment, which will consist of multiple 
research projects limited to specific areas in which the members 
believe common solutions to specifically defined technical goals will 
speed the development and ultimate

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consumer access to vehicles equipped with effective cellular-based 
device-to-device communications (``C-V2X-equipped vehicles''). Cellular 
V2X D2D Consortium's objectives are to gain further knowledge and 
understanding of C-V2X-equipped vehicles.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-24432 Filed 11-7-18; 8:45 am]
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