[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 189 (Wednesday, September 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 52292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26180]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--the National Electrical Manufacturers 
Association (``NEMA'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 14, 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 National Electrical 
Manufacturers Association (``NEMA'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are 
Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA; ALI Technologies, Inc., 
Richmond, British Columbia; Aloka, Tokyo, Japan; Hewlett-Packard Co., 
Palo Alao, CA; and Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY. The parties to the 
venture, manufacturers and vendors of devices that record on or read 
from various media the images drawn from multi-model medical imaging 
devices (e.g., ultrasound devices, CAT scanners and the like), intend 
to cooperate in the cross-testing of their reading and production 
equipment in order to implement the Digital Imaging and Communications 
in Medicine (DICOM) Standard. The DICOM Standard is a set of rules that 
will allow a medical image produced on one vendor's machine to be 
displayed on a workstation from another vendor. The purpose of the 
cross-testing is to ensure the compatibility of equipment so as to 
facilitate the exchange of medical images between instruments, 
computers and hospitals.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-26180 Filed 9-29-98; 8:45 am]
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