DISCLOSURE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY.

SEC. 107. DISCLOSURE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY. Section 6 of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993 (15 U.S.C. 4305) is amended—(1) in subsection (a)—(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively, (B) by inserting “(1)” after “(a)”, and(C) by adding at the end the following:“(2) A standards development organization may, not later than 90 days after commencing a standards development activity engaged in for the purpose of developing or promulgating a voluntary consensus standards or not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2004, whichever is later, file simultaneously with 118 STAT. 665 the Attorney General and the Commission, a written notification disclosing—“(A) the name and principal place of business of the standards development organization, and“(B) documents showing the nature and scope of such activity.Any standards development organization may file additional disclosure notifications pursuant to this section as are appropriate to extend the protections of section 4 to standards development activities that are not covered by the initial filing or that have changed significantly since the initial filing.”, (2) in subsection (b)—(A) in the 1st sentence by inserting “, or a notice with respect to such standards development activity that identifies the standards development organization engaged in such activity and that describes such activity in general terms” before the period at the end, and(B) in the last sentence by inserting “or available to such organization, as the case may be” before the period,(3) in subsection (d)(2) by inserting “, or the standards development activity,” after “venture”,(4) in subsection (e)—(A) by striking “person who” and inserting “person or standards development organization that”, and(B) by inserting “or any standards development organization” after “person” the last place it appears, and(5) in subsection (g)(1) by inserting “or standards development organization” after “person”.