[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 120 (Wednesday, June 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 38598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15608]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--VSI Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 27, 2000, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), VSI Alliance 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, 3Com Corporation, 
Santa Clara, CA; Jean-Paul Calvez (individual member), Nantes, France; 
Pai Chou (individual member), Irvine, CA; ControlNet, Inc., Milpitas, 
CA; DSP Group, Inc., Herzlia, Israel; Element 14, Inc., Cambridge, 
United Kingdom; and IDEC (IC Design Education Center), Taejon, Republic 
of Korea have been added as parties to this venture. Also, Analog 
Circuit Technology, San Diego, CA; The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; 
Chip & Chip, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; IMS--Integrated Measurement 
Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR; Iprias Ltd., Bristol, United Kingdom; 
Maingate Electronics, Inc., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; Metis 
Associates, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; NeoParadigm Labs, Inc., San Jose, CA; 
Sagantec North America, Inc., Fremont, CA; Silicon Access Technology, 
San Jose, CA; SiPCore, Inc., San Jose, CA; Stellar Semiconductor, San 
Jose, CA; and VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA have been dropped 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 VSI Alliance intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-15608 Filed 6-20-00; 8:45 am]
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