[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]


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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]
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