[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 97 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 27602]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12726]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The ATM Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 22, 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''), The ATM Forum (``ATM'') has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in the 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, the following 
organizations have joined ATM: ACACIA, Saint-Peray, France; and 
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation), Brooklyn Park, MN. The 
following members have changed their names: ATM Ltd. to Virata Ltd, 
Cambridge, United Kingdom; Hitachi Telecom to Hitachi, Norcross, GA; 
Information Technology Institute to Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore; 
Integrated Telecom Technology, Inc. to IgT, Gaithersburg, MD; NASA Ames 
Research Center to NASA Lewis Research Center, Moffettfield, CA; 
Network General Corporation to Network Associates, Inc., Menlo Park, 
CA; Lockheed Martin Corporation to Lockheed Martin Telecommunications--
Interactive Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA. The following have 
changed their membership from principal to auditing members: Digital 
Link Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; DiviCom Inc., Milpitas, CA; Efficient 
Networks, Inc., Dallas, TX; Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA; 
Switched Network Technologies, Inc., Plymouth, MN; Linmor Technologies, 
Inc., Nepan, Ontario, CANADA; and Xedia Corporation, Littleton, MA. The 
following have changed their membership from auditing to principal 
members: AMCC (Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), San Diego, CA; 
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy; Audiocodes Ltd, Yehuda, Israel; 
Secant Network Technologies, Inc., Triangle Park, NC; NDS, Hampshire, 
United Kingdom; Ficon Technology, Woodbridge, NJ; and Booz Allen & 
Hamilton, McLean, VA. Also, Allied Telesyn Int'l Corp., Morrisville, 
NC; Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA; Asahi Chemical Industry, 
Tokyo, Japan; Ascom AG, Bern, Switzerland; Bull, Echirolles Cedex, 
France; CompuServe, Inc., Columbus, OH; David Sarnoff Research Center, 
Princeton, NJ; Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA; Exar 
Corporation, Fremont, CA; First Virtual Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; 
Honeywell Inc., Richardson, TX; KDD, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; Worldcom Inc., 
Tulsa, OK; National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Natural 
Microsystems Corp., Framingham, MA; Netrix Corporation, Herndon, VA; 
Network Systems Corp., Minneapolis, MN; Novell, Inc., San Jose, CA; 
Ollivetti Research Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom; Panduit 
Corporation, Tinley Park, IL; Racal-Datacom, Inc., Sunrise, FL; 
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Norcross, GA; SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, 
St. Genis Pouilly, France; Siecor Corporation, Hickory, NC; Spectran 
Specialty Optics Co., Avon, CT; Standard Microsystems Corporation, 
Irvine, CA; Symbionics Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom; Telenetworks, 
Petaluman, CA; Telstra Corp., Clayton, Australia; Texas Instruments, 
Inc., Sherman, TX; Toray, Inc., Nagoya, Japan; Unisource Business 
Networks, Stockholm, Sweden; Verilink Corporation, San Jose, CA; VLSI 
Technololgy, Inc., San Jose, CA; Whittaker Communications Incorporated, 
Santa Clara, CA; Boston Optical Fiber Inc., Westborough, MA; Hekimian 
Laboratories Inc., Rockville, MD; Microm Communications Corp., Simi 
Valley, CA; Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Softcom Microsystems, 
Inc., Fremont, CA; Leviton Telcom, Botheil, WA; USC/Information 
Sciences Institute, Arlington, VA; Vertel Corporation, Woodland Hills, 
CA; Global One, Reston, VA; LGIC, Anyang, Korea; CellIT Inc., Miami, 
FL; and Virginia Technology University, Blacksburg, VA 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 ATM intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 19, 1993, ATM 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 June 2, 
1993 (58 FR 31415).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 24, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51145).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-12726 Filed 5-19-99; 8:45 am]
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