[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28065-28066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13543]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; The ATM Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 28, 1997, pursuant to 
Sec. 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the ATM Forum 
(``Forum'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of 
extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Specifically, the following organizations have joined the Forum: 
ASCII Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; Linmor Technologies, Inc., 
Nepean, Ontario, CANADA; Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta, GA; TTK 
Consulting, Petaling Jaya Selangor, MALAYSIA; Visual Networks, Inc., 
Rockville, MD; and Xedia Corp., Littleton, MA. The following 
organizations have withdrawn their membership with the Forum: ACT 
Networks Inc.; Bear-Stearns and Co.; Bolt Beranek & Newman Corporation; 
Cablelabs Inc.; California Eastern Labs Corp.; CTS Corp.; Cypress 
Semiconductor Corp.; Data Communications Technology; Digi International 
Inc.; Digicom Systems Inc.;

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EXAR Corp; Graphics Communication Laboratories; Ipsilon Networks Inc.; 
IT Concepts PTE Ltd.; Lawrence Berkeley Labs; Molex Inc.; Network 
Peripherals Inc.; Nuera Communications Inc.; Packard-Hughes 
Interconnect; S-COM AG; Sierra Research and Technology Inc.; Stellar 
One Corp.; Telstra Corp.; UNI Inc.; and Vixel Corp. Additionally, the 
following Forum members have been involved in acquisitions: Ascend 
Communications Inc., acquired Whitetree Network Technologies Inc.; 
Cadia Networks Inc., acquired by FORE systems, Inc.; Fluke Corp., 
acquired DeskNet Systems, Inc.; and U.S. Robotics Corp., acquired 
Scorpio Communications Ltd. The following members have changed their 
names: Brooktree Corp., to Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Inc.; GIE 
COFiRA to GIE CEGETEL; and MFS Communications to WorldCom, Inc. The 
following have changed their membership from auditing members to 
principal members: Pairgain Technologies, Inc.; Switched Networks 
Technologies; and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. The following have 
changed their membership from principal members to auditing members: 
Adaptec Inc.; Advanced Micro Devices Inc.; Auspex Systems Inc.; IAE 
Corp.; Incite; Information Comm Inst Singapore; Level One 
Communications Inc.; Scope Communications Inc.; Silicon Graphics Inc.; 
Silicom Manufacturing Technology Inc.; Southern New England Telephone 
Corp.; Tampere University of Technology; and Unisys Corp.
    No changes have been made in the planning activities of the Forum. 
Membership remains open, and the Forum intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 19, 1993, the Forum filed its original notification 
pursuant to Sec. 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a 
notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Sec. 6(b) of the Act on June 
2, 1993 (58 FR 31415). The last notification was filed on January 28, 
1997 and a notice was published in the Federal Register on March 20, 
1997 (62 FR 13394).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-13543 Filed 5-21-97; 8:45 am]
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