[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28519-28520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13290]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--OBI Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 23, 1999, 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 has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its

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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, Concur Technologies, Inc., Redmond, WA; GTE CyberTrust 
Solutions, Inc., Needham Heights, MA; SATCOM Electronic Commerce 
Services, Osborne Park, WA AUSTRALIA; Barnes & Noble, New York, NY; 
DuPont, Wilmington, DE; McMaster-Carr, Elmhurst, IL; McJunkin 
Corporation, Charleston, WV; Comdisco, Inc., Rosemont, IL; Flint Ink, 
Ann Arbor, MI; and NTT America, Inc., Mountain View, CA have been added 
as parties to this venture. Also, SAP, Foster City, CA; First Union 
National Bank, Charlotte, NC; National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, CA; 
and WH Brady, Milwaukee, WI 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 OBI Consortium intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On September 10, 1997, OBI Consortium 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 1, 
1998. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 19, 1999 (64 FR 13604).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-13290 Filed 5-25-99; 8:45 am]
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