[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 83 (Friday, April 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 24985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10603]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Wireless Application Protocol Forum (``WAP'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 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''), Wireless Application Protocol 
Forum (``WAP'') 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, ASL, Bristol, United Kingdom; AU-System Mobile AB, 
Stockholm, SWEDEN; Baltimore Technologies, Dublin, Ireland; BEA 
WebXpress;, San Francisco, CA; Cap Gemini, Puteaux, Cedex, France; 
Digital Mobility Ltd., London, United Kingdom; East Digifone, Dublin, 
Ireland; Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Japan Telecom Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; 
Lexacom Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada; MapQuest.com Inc., Mountville, 
PA; Merita Bank Plc, Merita, Finland; Microsoft, Redmond, WA; Mobile 
Services Group, Irving, TX; Orange Communications SA, Lausanne, 
Switzerland; Peramon Technology Ltd., Reading, United Kingdom; 
Razorfish, Inc., Helsinki, Finland; Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA; 
TAN TAU Software Inc., Utrecht, The Netherlands; Telecom Wireless 
Solutions, Alpharetta, GA; UBS, Zurich, Switzerland; Usha Communication 
Technology, Portland, OR; WapIT Ltd., Helsinki, Finland; and Wireless 
Knowledge, San Diego, CA 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 Wireless Application Protocol Forum 
(``WAP'') intends to file additional written notification disclosing 
all changes in membership.
    On March 18, 1998, Wireless Application Protocol Forum (``WAP'') 
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 December 31, 1998 (63 FR 72333).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 6, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-10603 Filed 4-27-00; 8:45 am]
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