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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 69 — Cooperative Research

§ 4306. Application of section 4303 protections to production of products, processes, and services

Statutory text

Notwithstanding sections 4303 and 4305 of this title, the protections of section 4303 of this title shall not apply with respect to a joint venture’s production of a product, process, or service, as referred to in section 4301(a)(6)(D) of this title, unless—

(1)

the principal facilities for such production are located in the United States or its territories, and

(2)

each person who controls any party to such venture (including such party itself) is a United States person, or a foreign person from a country whose law accords antitrust treatment no less favorable to United States persons than to such country’s domestic persons with respect to participation in joint ventures for production.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. National Cooperative Research Act of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–462 § 7 · 98 Stat. 1815

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 4306

    (Pub. L. 98–462, § 7, as added Pub. L. 103–42, § 3(g), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 119.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–462, § 7, as added Pub. L. 103–42, § 3(g), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 119.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 98–462, § 7, as added Pub. L. 103–42, § 3(g), , 107 Stat. 119.)

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