[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61664-61665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29516]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Bell Communications Research, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 13, 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''), Bell Communications 
Research, Inc. (``Bellcore'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing: (1) A change in the ownership of Bellcore, (2) 
its present intention to continue to engage jointly, on a contractual 
basis, with a variety of other entities, including its former 
shareholders, in applied research, new service development, generic 
requirements, testing and standards support, and software systems work, 
and (3) the nature and objectives of such engagements. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's 
provisions limiting the recorvery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 
Act, the identities of the parties to various joint research projects 
and the general area of planned activities are described below.
    Bellcore is a coropation with its principal place of business and 
facilities located in the United States. Bellcore's shares were 
previously held by Ameritech Services, Inc., Bell Atlantic Newwork 
Services, Inc., BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Pacific Bell, 
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Telesector Resources, Group, Inc., 
and U S WEST Communications, Inc. All of Bellcore's shares were 
acquired on November 14, 1997 by Science Applications International 
Corporation, San Diego, CA. Although under new ownership, Bellcore 
presently intends to continue to engage jointly, on a contractual 
basis, with a variety of other entities, including its former 
shareholders, in applied research, new service development, generic 
requirements, testing and standards support, and software systems work.
    In particular, Bellcore continues to engage in a variety of joint 
research and related projects with its former shareholders to enable 
these companies and their affiliates to maintain high quality and 
technologically up-to-date network capabilities to support their 
provision of exchange and exchange access telecommunications services 
and such other telecommunications service as these cmpanies authorize 
by contract with Bellcore. In doing so, Bellcore seeks to create and 
develop innovative and improved technologies, processes, software 
systems and service ideas that support its former schareholders and 
their affiliates as enablers or providers of telecommunications 
services that allow people and their machines to cost-effectively 
access information and comumunicate with each other easily, reliably 
and securely, anywhere, any time, in any medium or combination of 
media. Bellcore's work for its former shareholders and others 
encompasses applied research, new service development and related 
network planning, engineering, training, innovative development and 
production of software systems and associated economic research.
    Bellcore's general areas of ongoing and planned activities include 
work focused on enterprise efficiency, robust (dependable, flexible, 
scure) networks and operations, advanced voice and messaging 
capabilities, personal nomadic communications and information access, 
public data networking, video dialtone and related services, and 
network-related support for new information service capabilities.
    Bellcore's technical support includes its undertaking of applied 
research in such fields as physical science,

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computer scinece, mathematics and switching and transmission 
technologies and includes the creating of experimental prototypes as 
needed for experimental demonstration and testing of research results 
and technical feasibility. Bellcore then extends its findings of 
technological possibilities to new or improved technological 
applications in the networks of its former shareholders or their 
affiliates, through such activities as the creation and development of 
new telecommunications network service concepts and related network 
planning, engineering (including development of technical requirements, 
testing and support for standards-related activities) and software 
development and production.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the various research projects. Membership in the research 
projects remains open, and Bellcore intends to file additional written 
notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 7, 1985, Bellcore filed its original notification 
purusant 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 30, 1985.
    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 18, 
1993. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on October 26, 1993 (58 FR. 57622).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-29516 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]
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