[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 71 (Tuesday, April 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18225-18226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9796]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--OBI Consortium Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 9, 1997, 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 OBI Consortium Inc., 
(``Consortium'') 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 entities have become members of the 
venture: Requisite Technology, Inc., Boulder, CO; Bellcore, Piscataway, 
NJ; Ariba Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA; Chemdex Corporation, Palo Alto, 
CA; Southern California Gas Co., Los Angeles, CA; Sigma-Aldrich 
Research, St. Louis, MO; SciQuest, RTP, NC; Visa International, San 
Francisco, CA; Affymax Research Institute, Santa Clara, CA; DMR 
Consulting Group, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Fisher Scientific, 
Pittsburgh, PA; Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, PA; Johnson & 
Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; Graybar Electric Co., St. Louis, MO; GE 
Global Services, Fairfield, CT; NEC Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 
JAPAN; National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara, CA; and Staples, 
Inc., Westboro, MA; Applied Industrial Technologies, Cleveland, OH; 
First Union National Bank, Charlotte, NC; Newark Electronics, Chicago, 
IL; Perot Systems, Westchester, PA; SAP America, Foster City, CA; IBM 
Corporation, Hawthorne, NJ; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; 
Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA;

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and Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and OBI intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On September 10, 1997, OBI filed its original notification pursuant 
to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a 
notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on 
November 10, 1997 (62 FR 60531).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-9796 Filed 4-13-98; 8:45 am]
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