[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 126 (Friday, June 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33774-33775]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16512]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant To the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993 National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 6, 1996, pursuant to Sec. 6(a) 
of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 
U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the National Electronics 
Manufacturing Initiative (``NEMI'') 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 Sec. 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are: 
Adept Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA; AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA; 
American Electronics Association, Washington, DC; Camelot Systems, 
Inc., Haverhill, MA; Chad Industries, Orange, CA; Cimetrix, Inc., 
Provo, UT; Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX; Delco Electronics 
Corporation, Kokomo, IN; Dover Technologies International, Binghamton, 
NY; DuPont Electronics, Research Triangle Park, NC; Everett Charles 
Technologies, Pomona, CA; GR Technologies, Concord, MA; HADCO 
Corporation, Salem, NH; IPC/ITRI, Northbrook, IL; Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Lucent Technologies, Princeton, NJ; 
MCNC, Research Triangle Park, NC; Microelectronics and Computer 
Technology Corporation (``MCC''), Austin, TX; Morton Electronic 
Materials, Tustin, CA; Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL; National 
Institute of Standards and Technology (``NIST''), Gaithersburg, MD; 
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc., Willow Grove, PA; MPM Corporation, 
Franklin, MA; Northrop Grumman Corporation, Baltimore, MD; Sheldahl, 
Inc., Northfield, MN; Solectron Corporation, Milpitas, CA; and Texas 
Instruments Incorporated, Temple, TX.
    NEMI's area of planned activity is to perform research and 
infrastructure development with a technical focus on the manufacturing 
of electronic information products that connect to information 
networks. Three initial thrust areas are the creation of a technology 
requirements roadmap; the setting of technical goals for materials and 
equipment suppliers; and the initiation of research, development, and 
deployment projects with suppliers in conjunction with the 
aforementioned goals. The parties will collect, exchange,

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and where appropriate, license or make public the results of the 
research and development, work closely with various governmental and 
private agencies and perform future acts as allowed by the Act that 
would advance the venture objectives.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-16512 Filed 6-27-96; 8:45 am]
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