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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: 

Pathenia M. Proctor, The Office of 

Unfair Import Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 

telephone (202) 205–2560. 

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 (2024). 

Scope of Investigation: Having 

considered the complaint, the U.S. 

International Trade Commission, on 

January 21, 2025 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 

1–3 and 5 of the ’581 patent; claims 1, 

2, 6, and 8–10 of the ’562 patent; claims 

1 and 3–5 of the ’299 patent; claims 1– 

5 of the ’150 patent; claims 1–3 of the 

’626 patent; and claims 1–5 and 8 of the 

’310 patent, and whether an industry in 

the United States exists 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 ‘‘composite 

intermediate bulk containers’’; 

(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: 

Schu ̈tz Container Systems, Inc., 200 

Aspen Hill Rd., North Branch, NJ 

08876–5950 

Protechna S.A., Avenue De La Gare 14, 

CH–1701 Fribourg, Switzerland 

(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: 

Shandong Jinshan Jieyuan Container 

Co., Ltd., 69 Hengyuan Road, Dantu 

Industrial Park, Zhengjiang City, 

Jiangsu Province, China, 212000 

Zibo Jielin Plastic Pipe Manufacture Co. 

Ltd., No. 6, Qingtian Road, Qilu 

Chemical Industrial Park, Zibo City, 

Shandong Province, China, 255410 

Shanghai Sakura Plastic Products Co., 

Ltd., (d/b/a Shanghai Yinghua Plastic 

Products Co., LTD), No. 1353, Maixin 

Highway, Xinqiao Town, Songjiang 

District, Shanghai, China, 201600 

Hebei Shijiheng Plastics, Co., Ltd., No. 

5 Torch Avenue, Sino-Europe 

Industrial Park of Hebei, Province, 

Zhongjie Huanghua City, China, 

061100 

(c) The Office of Unfair Import 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, Suite 

401, Washington, DC 20436; and 

(4) For the investigation so instituted, 

the Chief Administrative Law Judge, 

U.S. International Trade Commission, 

shall designate the presiding 

Administrative Law Judge. 

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: January 21, 2025. 

Susan Orndoff, 

Supervisory Attorney. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01740 Filed 1–24–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Rust Foundation 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

October 25, 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’’), Rust 

Foundation 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, Open Source Science B.V., 

Breda, NETHERLANDS; PROMOTIC, 

Lome ́, TOGOLESE REPUBLIC; and 

Student Research and Development dba 

CodeDay, Seattle, WA, have been added 

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 Rust 

Foundation intends to file additional 

written notifications disclosing all 

changes in membership. 

On April 14, 2022, Rust Foundation 

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 13, 2022 (87 FR 

29384). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on August 12, 2024. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on October 11, 2024 (89 FR 82634). 

Suzanne Morris, 

Deputy Director Civil Enforcement 

Operations, Antitrust Division. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01726 Filed 1–24–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—America’s DataHub 

Consortium 

Notice is hereby given that, on June 

28, 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’’), America’s DataHub 

Consortium (‘‘ADC’’) has filed written 


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