[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 53 (Friday, March 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 13603]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6682]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Microelectronics and Computers Technology 
Corporation (``MCC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 18, 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''), Microelectronics and Computer 
Technology Corporation (``MCC'') 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, Texas Instruments, 
Dallas, TX, has become a MCC shareholder. The Boeing Company, Seattle, 
WA; Hughes Research Lab (HRL, L.L.C.), Malibu, CA; and Hughes 
Electronics, El Segundo, CA have become associate members. Raytheon, 
Lexington, MA, recently acquired the Hughes Aircraft Company portion of 
GM Hughes and will become the MCC shareholder SAIC, San Diego, CA, 
recently merged with Bellcore and is in the process of obtaining 
Bellcore's share and will become the MCC shareholder. Ceridian 
Corporation has transferred its MCC share to General Dynamics, Falls 
Church, VA. BBN Corporation, Pacific Sierra Research Corporation, 
Eastman Chemical Company and Nationsbank have declined to rejoin MCC. 
Schlumberger, San Jose, CA; and VLSI, San Jose, CA are being listed as 
1998 project participants.
    Lucent, 3M, Nokia, Nortel, Intel, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard have 
joined the Low Cost Portables Project. Raytheon and Schlumberger have 
joined the Infosleuth II Project. Honeywell has joined the Quest 
Project. Motorola and Nokia have joined the ProReal Visual Prototyping 
Project. Raytheon has joined the Object Infrastructure Project. VLSI 
Technology has joined the Server and Network Technology project.
    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 MCC intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On December 21, 1984, MCC 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 
January 17, 1985 (50 FR 2633).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17214).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-6682 Filed 3-18-99; 8:45 am]
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