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complaint, as supplemented, alleges 

violations of section 337 based upon the 

importation into the United States, the 

sale for importation, and the sale within 

the United States after importation of 

certain wireless communications 

equipment and components thereof by 

reason of infringement of certain claims 

of U.S. Patent No. 9,041,074 (‘‘the ’074 

patent’’); U.S. Patent No. 9,521,616 (‘‘the 

’616 patent’’); U.S. Patent No. 9,736,772 

(‘‘the ’772 patent’’); and U.S. Patent No. 

10,797,405 (‘‘the ’405 patent’’). The 

complaint further alleges that an 

industry in the United States exists or 

in the process of being established as 

required by the applicable Federal 

Statute. The complainants request that 

the Commission institute an 

investigation and, after the 

investigation, issue a limited exclusion 

order and cease and desist orders. 

ADDRESSES: The complaint, except for 

any confidential information contained 

therein, may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. For help 

accessing EDIS, please email 

EDIS3Help@usitc.gov. Hearing impaired 

individuals are advised that information 

on this matter can be obtained by 

contacting the Commission’s TDD 

terminal on (202) 205–1810. Persons 

with mobility impairments who will 

need special assistance in gaining access 

to the Commission should contact the 

Office of the Secretary at (202) 205– 

2000. General information concerning 

the Commission may also be obtained 

by accessing its internet server at 

https://www.usitc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Hiner, Office of the Secretary, 

Docket Services Division, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 

telephone (202) 205–1802. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: The authority for 

institution of this investigation is 

contained in section 337 of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 

1337, and in section 210.10 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10 (2020). 

Scope of Investigation: Having 

considered the complaint, the U.S. 

International Trade Commission, on 

February 8, 2021, ORDERED THAT— 

(1) Pursuant to subsection (b) of 

section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, an investigation be instituted 

to determine whether there is a 

violation of subsection (a)(1)(B) of 

section 337 in the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

or the sale within the United States after 

importation of certain products 

identified in paragraph (2) by reason of 

infringement of one or more of claims 

1–6 and 11–17 of the ’074 patent; claims 

1–5, 8–16, 19–24, 26, 29–37, 40, and 42 

of the ’616 patent; claims 1–15 of the 

’772 patent; and claims 1–20 of the ’405 

patent; and whether an industry in the 

United States exists or is in the process 

of being established as required by 

subsection (a)(2) of section 337; 

(2) Pursuant to section 210.10(b)(1) of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10(b)(1), the 

plain language description of the 

accused products or category of accused 

products, which defines the scope of the 

investigation, is ‘‘wireless 

communications devices or software for 

use with 4G and 5G applications and 

components thereof, specifically base 

stations, base band units, antenna units, 

antenna systems, radio units, radio 

systems, mobile transport systems, site 

systems, digital units, CPU units, 

modem units, central units, power 

amplifiers, or related software; radio 

access network software; network 

management software; cloud radio 

access networks; virtual radio access 

networks; or radio access processing 

platforms’’; 

(3) For the purpose of the 

investigation so instituted, the following 

are hereby named as parties upon which 

this notice of investigation shall be 

served: 

(a) The complainants are: 

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 129 

Samsung ro (Maetan-dong), 

Yeongtong-gu Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 

16677 Korea 

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 85 

Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, NJ 

07660 

(b) The respondents are the following 

entities alleged to be in violation of 

section 337, and are the parties upon 

which the complaint is to be served: 

Ericsson AB, Torshamnsgatan 23, Kista, 

16480 Stockholm, Sweden 

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, 

Torshamnsgatan 21, Kista, SE–164 83 

Stockholm, Sweden 

Ericsson Inc., 6300 Legacy Drive, Plano, 

TX 75024 

(4) For the investigation so instituted, 

the Chief Administrative Law Judge, 

U.S. International Trade Commission, 

shall designate the presiding 

Administrative Law Judge. 

The Office of Unfair Import 

Investigations will not participate as a 

party to this investigation. 

Responses to the complaint and the 

notice of investigation must be 

submitted by the named respondents in 

accordance with section 210.13 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.13. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 201.16(e) and 210.13(a), as 

amended in 85 FR 15798 (March 19, 

2020), such responses will be 

considered by the Commission if 

received not later than 20 days after the 

date of service by the complainants of 

the complaint and the notice of 

investigation. Extensions of time for 

submitting responses to the complaint 

and the notice of investigation will not 

be granted unless good cause therefor is 

shown. 

Failure of a respondent to file a timely 

response to each allegation in the 

complaint and in this notice may be 

deemed to constitute a waiver of the 

right to appear and contest the 

allegations of the complaint and this 

notice, and to authorize the 

administrative law judge and the 

Commission, without further notice to 

the respondent, to find the facts to be as 

alleged in the complaint and this notice 

and to enter an initial determination 

and a final determination containing 

such findings, and may result in the 

issuance of an exclusion order or a cease 

and desist order or both directed against 

the respondent. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: February 8, 2021. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—PXI Systems Alliance, 

Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

January 18, 2021, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative 

Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), PXI 

Systems Alliance, Inc. (‘‘PXI Systems’’) 

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, Virginia Panel (individual), 

Waynesboro, VA, has been added as a 

party to this venture. 

In addition, Coherent Solutions 

Limited has changed its name to 

Quantifi Photonics, Auckland, New 

Zealand. 

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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 PXI Systems 

intends to file additional written 

notifications disclosing all changes in 

membership. 

On November 22, 2000, PXI Systems 

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 March 8, 2001 (66 FR 

13971). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on November 2, 2020. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on November 23, 2020 (85 FR 

74763). 

Suzanne Morris, 

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, 

Antitrust Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02927 Filed 2–11–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

January 11, 2021, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative 

Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. Section 4301 et seq. (the 

‘‘Act’’), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 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, 

Titian Software, London, UNITED 

KINGDOM; Alexander Lavrentios 

(individual), Wellesley, MA; Galapagos 

N.V., Vlaanderen, BELGIUM; Richard 

Lingard (individual), London, UNITED 

KINGDOM; Adil Khan (individual), 

Lutherville, MD; McKinsey & Company, 

Berlin, GERMANY; QIAGEN, Redwood 

City, CA; Sartorius, Gottingen, 

GERMANY; Mcule, Budapest, 

HUNGARY; MolPort, Riga, LATVIA; 

Apheris AI GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY; 

ZS Associates, Inc., San Mateo, CA; 

UMEDEOR Ltd., New York, NY; and US 

Pharmacopeia, Rockville, MD have been 

added as parties to this venture. Also, 

UniteLabs AG, Basel-Stadt, 

SWITZERLAND; Valtari Bio Inc., 

Austin, TX; KWS SAAT SE, Lower 

Saxony, GERMANY; Repositive, 

Cambridgeshire, UNITED KINGDOM; 

and Fulcrum Direct Ltd., Wales,UNITED 

KINGDOM 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 Pistoia 

Alliance, Inc. intends to file additional 

written notifications disclosing all 

changes in membership. 

On May 28, 2009, Pistoia Alliance, 

Inc. 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 July 15, 2009 

(74 FR 34364). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on October 19, 2020. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on November 19, 2020 (85 FR 

73749). 

Suzanne Morris, 

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, 

Antitrust Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02938 Filed 2–11–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Consortium for Battery 

Innovation 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

January 15, 2021, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative 

Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), 

Consortium for Battery Innovation 

(‘‘CBI’’) 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, Owens Corning, 

Apeldoorn, THE NETHERLANDS; 

Eastman Auto & Power LTD; Solan, 

Himachal Preadesh, INDIA; Birla 

Carbon, Marietta, GA; and 

Hollingsworth & Vose Company, East 

Walpole, MA have been added as 

parties to this venture. 

Also, Microtex Energy Private 

Limited, Bengaluru, INDIA; Tydrolyte 

LLC, Troy, MI and EnerG2 

Technologies, Seattle, WA 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 CBI intends 

to file additional written notifications 

disclosing all changes in membership. 

On May 24, 2019, CBI 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 June 21, 2019 (84 FR 29241). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on June 16, 2020. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on July 16, 2020 (85 FR 43261). 

Suzanne Morris, 

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, 

Antitrust Division. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Consortium for Execution 

of Rendezvous and Servicing 

Operations 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

February 1, 2021, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative 

Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), 

Consortium for Execution of 

Rendezvous and Servicing Operations 

(‘‘CONFERS’’) 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, ClearSpace SA, Lausanne, 

SWITZERLAND; COMSPOC 

Corporation, Exton, PA; Florida Institute 

of Technology, Melbourne, FL; L3Harris 

Technologies, Inc., Melbourne, FL; 

Motiv Space Systems, Pasadena, CA; 

and Zero-G Horizons Technologies, 

LLC, Daytona Beach, FL have been 

added as parties to this venture. 

Effective Space, London, UNITED 

KINGDOM has withdrawn as a party 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