[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 232 (Monday, December 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 62109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29471]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Joint Research and Development Venture 
Agreement for Developing Cubic Boron Nitride Coatings for Cutting and 
Specialty Tools

    Notice is given that, on September 7, 1995, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), John J. Prizzi, Chief Counsel for 
Intellectual Property, Kennametal Inc., has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture agreement. 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 are Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and Extrude 
Hone Corporation, Irwin, Pennsylvania, and the general areas of their 
planned activity are to develop and demonstrate techniques for 
depositing superhard coatings of cubic boron nitride onto carbide tool 
blanks to provide a new class of more capable cutting tools suitable 
for machining harder and more wear resistant materials and in specialty 
tool dies to improve life and tool performance; an award by the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of 
Commerce will partially fund this joint venture.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 95-29471 Filed 12-1-95; 8:45 am]
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