[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28522-28523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13297]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 11, 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''), VSI Alliance 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, Antrim Design 
Systems, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA; Analog Circuit Technologies, Inc., 
San Diego, CA; Arc Cores Ltd., Huntsville, AL; Boulder Creek 
Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA; CSELT S.p.A. (Centro Studi E Laboratori 
Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.), Torino, Italy; Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., 
Kanagawa, Japan; HCL Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Nadu, India; 
Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore; Integrated Technology Express 
USA, Santa Clara, CA; Neo Linear, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA;

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NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA; Opmaxx, Inc., 
Beaverton, OR; Miodrag Potkonjak (individual), Los Angeles, CA; Alberto 
Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (individual), Berkely, CA; Siemens 
Microelectronics, Inc., Munich, Germany; Silicon Metrics Corp., Austin, 
TX; Stellar Semiconductor, San Jose, CA; and TansEDA, Inc., Los Gatos, 
CA has been added as parties to this venture. Also, Cadworx Consulting, 
Inc., Milpitas, CA; Denali Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; Eigen Tek, 
Inc., Cherry Hill, NH; Excellent Design, Inc., Kanagawa, Japan; 
Knowledge Based Silicon Corp., Columbia, SC; Oki Electric Industry Co., 
Ltd., LSI CAD Dept., Tokyo, Japan, SAND Microelectrics, Inc., San Jose, 
CA; Siemens Semiconductor, Munich, Germany; Symbios Logic, Inc., Fort 
Collins, CO; Systems Science, Palo Alto, CA; Taveren Technology, Inc., 
Austin, TX; and Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Rockville, MD 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 VSI Alliance intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 28, 
1998. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-13297 Filed 5-25-99; 8:45 am]
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