[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 250 (Wednesday, December 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 71955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34643]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Global Chipcard Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 10, 1998, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Global Chipcard Alliance 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 American Express, New York, NY; 
Banksys S.A., Brussels, BELGIUM; Bell Canada, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; 
British Telecom, Uxbridge, UNTIED KINGDOM; Chipper Netherlands, 
Hoofddorp, NETHERLANDS; Citicorp Development, New York, NY; Deutsche 
Telekom, Lindenfels, GERMANY; Elcotel, Inc., Sarasota, FL; Gemplus, 
Gemenos Cedez, FRANCE; Giesecki & Devrient America, Reston, VA; GTE, 
Dallas, TX; IBM, San Jose, CA; KPN Telecom BV, The Hague, NETHERLANDS; 
Landis & Gyr, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Mondex, San Francisco, CA; NCR 
Netherlands N.V., Amsterdam Zuidoost, NETHERLANDS; Nortel, Calgary, 
Alberta, CANADA; ORGA, Paderborn, GERMANY; Protel, Lakeland, FL; 
Schlumberger Smart, North Austin, TX; Siemens Components, Munich, 
GERMANY, SPT Telecom, Praha, CZECH REPUBLIC; Telecom Eireann, Dublin, 
IRELAND; Telekom Malaysia, Selangor Darul, MALAYSIA; Telstra, Sydney, 
AUSTRALIA; U.S. West, Seattle, WA; and Verifone, Alpharetta, GA. The 
nature and objectives of the venture are to provide a vehicle for the 
acceleration of the introduction of worldwide, regional wide 
interoperable products and services related to the use of integrated 
circuit cards by the adoption of voluntary international standards to 
assure widespread acceptance by vendors and consumers of products and 
services that can function interoperably in an open network 
architecture in world markets.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-34643 Filed 12-29-98; 8:45 am]
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