[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 194 (Thursday, October 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 54644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26180]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Multiservice Switching Forum
Notice is hereby given that, on April 20, 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''), Multiservice Switching Forum 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, Bosch
Telecommunications, Stuttgart, GERMANY; Data Connection Ltd., Enfield,
UNITED KINGDOM; IBM, Armonk NY; Marconi Communications, New Century
Park, Coventry, UNITED KINGDOM; Mariner Networks Inc., Anaheim, CA;
Mitel, Kanata, Ontario, CANADA; Motorola, Mansfield, MA; NET, Fremont,
CA; Net Insight, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Nokia Telecommunications, Helsinki,
FINLAND; NTT Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Oresis Communications,
Beaverton, OR; Samsung Telecom, Seoul, KOREA; Telefonic de Espana,
Madrid, SPAIN; Tellabs, Lisle, IL; Trillium, Los Angeles, CA; and
Xbind, New York, NY have been added 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 Multiservice Switching Forum intends
to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in
membership.
On January 22, 1999, Multiservice Switching Forum 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 May 26, 1999 (64 FR 28519).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-26180 Filed 10-6-99; 8:45 am]
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