[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15175-15176]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6958]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; J. Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 9, 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''), J. Consortium, Inc. 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 Advanced VLSL Engineering Inc., San Jose, CA; 
Advantisys, Upland, CA; Anacon Systems Inc., Mountain View, CA; Aonix, 
San Diego, CA; Brooks Automation Software Corp., Richmond, B.C., 
CANADA; Coactive Networks, Sausalito, CA; EIB Association scrl (EIBA), 
Brussels, BELGIUM; FI System, Paris, FRANCE; GraphOn, Campbell, CA; 
Groupe Silicomp Research Institute, Gieres, FRANCE; Hewlett Packard, 
Cupertino, CA; Hinditron Information Ltd., Andhen (East), MUMBAI; Icon 
Laboratories, Inc., West Des Moines, IA; KALKI Communications 
Technology, Koramangala, BANGALORE; Microsoft, Redmond, WA; Mitsubishi 
Electric Corp., Kobe, JAPAN; Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Siga, 
JAPAN; Navia Maritime AS, division Autronica, Trondheim, NORWAY; 
NewMonics Inc., Ames, IA; Russell J. Richards, Woodbridge, VA; Octera 
Corporation, San Diego, CA; OMRON Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Jack 
Xu, Milpitas, CA; Perennial, San Jose, CA; Plum Hall Inc.,

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Kamuela, HI; Schlumberger Test & Transactions, Montrouge Cedex, FRANCE; 
Siemens A&D, Nurnberg, GERMANY; Transmedia Communications, Fremont, CA; 
WindRiver, Alameda, CA; Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA; Xycom Automation 
Inc., Chagrin Falls, OH; Yamatake Corporation, Kanagawa, JAPAN; 
Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; and E. Douglas Jensen, 
Sherborn, MA. The nature and objectives of the venture are to promote 
the development and adoption of open, accessible standards and 
specifications relating to real-time and embedded applications for 
JAVA\TM\ technologies, such as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Java 
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs, or packages), etc. 
(``Specifications''); to promote such specifications and solutions 
worldwide to ensure the ability for application developers to create 
soft- and hard-real-time applications for such technologies, to provide 
for testing and conformity assessment of implementations in order to 
ensure compliance with Specifications; to create and own distinctive 
trademarks; and to operate a branding program based upon distinctive 
trademarks to create high customer awareness of, demand for, and 
confidence in products designed in compliance with Specifications; and 
to undertake such other activities as may from time to time be 
appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth 
above.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6958 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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