[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 133 (Monday, July 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 37589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18474]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 2, 1998, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Petrotechnical Open Software 
Corporation (``POSC'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
changes in its membership status. 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 additional parties have become new non-
voting members of POSC: GlavNIVC (Ministry of Natural Resources of the 
Russian Federation), Moscow, RUSSIA; Seismic Micro-Technology Inc., 
Houston, TX; INTesa, Caracas, VENEZUELA; Hitec ASA, Stavanger, NORWAY; 
China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing, CHINA; Intelligent 
Computer Solutions, London, UNITED KINGDOM; and Iona Technologies Ltd., 
Cambridge, MA.
    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 Petrotechnical Open Software 
Corporation (``POSC'') intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 14, 1991, petrotechnical Open Software Corporation 
(``POSC'') 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 February 7, 1991 (56 FR 
5021).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 16, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 28, 1997 (62 FR 63389).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-18474 Filed 7-10-98; 8:45 am]
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