[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 15177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6953]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1933; Standard MEMS

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 3, 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''), Standard MEMS has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) 
the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed 
for the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery 
of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances. Pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of 
the parties are Microscan Systems, Inc., Renton, WA; Maxim Integrated 
Products, Sunnyvale, CA; Microcosm Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA; 
Optical Micro Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA; Standard MEMS, Hauppauge, 
NY; and Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY. The nature and objectives of 
the venture are to develop a manufacturing process and manufacturing 
infrastructure for Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems. The 
activities of this project will be partially funded by an award from 
the Advanced Technology Program, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, Department of Commerce. The goals of this collaboration are 
to overcome the barriers that limit the application of low-cost Micro-
Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MOEMS) devices in commercial 
applications in telecommunications, data acquisition, and 
reprographics. The most important technical barriers are in the areas 
of packaging, systems partitioning, the optical and mechanical 
properties of thin film elements, and the assembly and alignment of 
free-space micro-optical systems. To overcome the technical barriers, 
Standard MEMS will develop a broadly enabling MOEMS fabrication 
process, and utilize this process to demonstrate prototype MOEMS 
devices at Optical Micro-Machines, Microscan Systems, and Xerox, to 
enable commercialization of the prototypes following the completion of 
the ATP collaboration.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6953 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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