[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: 98-20399]


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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 March 3, 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''), OBI Consortium, Inc. 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, 3M, St. Paul, MN; 
AllData Corporation, Elk Grove, CA; Amvet Inc., Lexington, KY; Commerce 
One, Walnut Creek, CA; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; 
Connect Inc., Mountain View, CA; Dell Computer Corporation, Round Rock, 
TX; Dun & Bradstreet, Parsippany, NJ; EPIC Systems Inc., Phoenix, AZ; 
Harbinger Corporation, Atlanta, GA; InterWorld Corporation, New York, 
NY; Mastercard International, Purchase, NY; PartNet, Salt Lake City, 
UT; Software Spectrum, Garland, TX; Vallen Corporation, Houston, TX; 
and W.H. Brady, Milwaukee, WI have been added 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 OBI Consortium, Inc. intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On September 10, 1997, OBI Consortium, Inc. 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).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 9, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 14, 1998 (63 FR 18335).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-20399 Filed 7-29-98; 8:45 am]
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