[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43077-43078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21198]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--``United Technologies Research Center''

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 26, 1996, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), United Technologies Research 
Center (``UTRC''), an unincorporated operating unit of United 
Technologies Corporation (``UTC''), has filed written notifications on 
behalf of UTC and participants in the venture, 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 UTC, Hartford, CT, acting 
through UTRC, East Hartford, CT, Pratt & Whitney GESP, West Palm Beach, 
FL, Hamilton Standard, Windsor Locks, CT, and United Technologies 
Microelectronics Center, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO; AlliedSignal Inc., 
Morristown, NJ, acting through its Aerospace Equipment Systems 
Division, Tempe, AZ and Microelectronics & Technology Center, Columbia, 
MD; The Boeing Company, Kent, WA, acting through its Defense and Space 
Group, Kent, WA; Honeywell Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN, acting 
through its Solid State Electronics Center, Plymouth, MN; Moog Inc., 
East Aurora, NY; Parker Hannifin Corporation, Irvin, CA, acting through 
its Control Systems Division, Irvine, CA and Gull Electronic Systems 
Division, Smithtown, NY; Rockwell International Corporation, Thousand 
Oaks, CA, acting through the Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, 
CA; Toranaga Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, CA, acting through 
Toranaga Technologies, Inc., Carlsbad, CA; and The University of 
Maryland, at College Park, MD.
    Its general areas of planned activities are to engage in 
cooperative research and development in the area of high temperature 
distributed control systems including, without limitation, the 
experimental building, finishing, assembly and testing of models, 
prototypes and equipment, and the development of materials and 
processes. The aforementioned parties will not individually engage in 
production of the resulting product under this joint research and 
development venture.

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    Membership in the program remains open, and UTC intends to file 
additional written notifications disclosing all changes in the 
membership or planned activities.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-21198 Filed 8-19-96; 8:45 am]
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