[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 146 (Thursday, July 30, 1998)] [Notices] [Page 40742] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-20398] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Antitrust Division Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993; VSI Alliance Notice is hereby given that, on February 27, 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''), VSI Alliance 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, Advanced Bytes & Rights, Ltd., London, UNITED KINGDOM; ASIC Alliance Corporation, Burlington, MA; BOPS, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC; Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA; Chip & Chip, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; ChipLogic, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Cimaron Communications, Lawrence, MA; Credence Systems Corporation, Fremont, CA; Denso Corporation, Nukata-gun, Aichi Prefecture, JAPAN; Design & Reuse, Grenoble, FRANCE; Eigen Tek, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ; Electronic Tools Company, Sonoma, CA; Fraunhofer Institute IMS, Dresden, GERMANY; Macronix International Co., Ltd. Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Microelectronics Research Institute PROGRESS, Moscow, RUSSIA; Pivotal Technologies, Pasadena, CA; Power X Limited, Sale, Cheshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Real 3D, Orlando, FL; SpaSE BV, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS; Syntest Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, CANADA; and Virage Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA have been added as parties to this venture. Also, Compass Design Automation, San Jose, CA; GEC Plessey, Plymouth, Devon, UNITED KINGDOM; and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., San Jose, CA have been dropped as parties to this venture. 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 VSI Alliance intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership. On November 27, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812). The last notification was filed with the Department on November 19, 1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on April 14, 1998 (63 FR 18226). Constance K. Robinson, Director of Operations Antitrust Division. [FR Doc. 98-20398 Filed 7-29-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-11-M