[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 115 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30098-30099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14976]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993; National Industrial Information Infrastructure
Protocols Solutions for Manufacturing--Adaptable Replacable Technology
Notice is hereby given that, on May 1, 1996, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the National Industrial
Information Infrastructure Protocols Solutions for Manufacturing-
Adaptable Replicable Technology (``NIIIP-SMART'') 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. 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: IBM-Manufacturing Industry Solutions, Charlotte, NC;
IBM Software Solutions Division, Somers, NY; General Motors
Corporation, Warren, MI; STEP TOOLS, Inc., Troy, NY; UES Inc., Dublin,
OH; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; AMP incorporated,
Harrisburg, PA; International TechneGroup Inc., Milford, OH; Mesa
International, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Applied Automation Techneques,
Inc., Miami Lakes, FL; Consilium, Mountain View, CA; Industrial
Computer Corporation, Atlanta, GA; FACT, Inc., Norcross, GA; FASTech
Integrations,
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Inc., Lincoln, MA; Promis Systems Corporation, Toronto, Ontario,
CANADA; and NIIIP Project Office, Stamford, CT.
NIIIP's area of planned activity is development of open industry
software protocols that will integrate computing environments across
the U.S. manufacturing base.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-14976 Filed 6-12-96; 8:45 am]
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