[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 123 (Monday, June 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 39429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16001]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Storage Industry Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 18, 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''), National Storage Industry 
Consortium 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, Advanced Research, Minneapolis, MN; Cirrus Logic, 
Fremont, CA; ECD, Troy, MI; EMC, Hopkinton, MA; Imation Corporation, 
Oakdale, MN; Lucent Technologies, Allentown, PA; Maxtor, Milpitas, CA; 
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN; Polaroid, 
Cambridge, MA; Silicon Graphics, Mountain View; CA; Siros Technologies, 
Mountain View, CA; Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA; and Texas 
Instruments, Dallas, TX have been added as parties to this venture. The 
following colleges and universities have joined the National Storage 
Industry Consortium as university associate members: Argonne National 
Laboratory, Argonne, IL; Harvard University, Cambridge MA; Lawrence 
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Montana State University, 
Bozeman, MT; University of Akron, OH; University of Alberta, Edmonton, 
CANADA; University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, TN. Also, Optitek, Inc., Mountain View, CA has been dropped 
as a party 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 National Storage Industry Consortium 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On June 12, 1991, National Storage Industry Consortium 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 August 13, 1991 (56 FR 38465).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 15, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on November 10, 1997 (62 FR 60531).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-16001 Filed 6-23-00; 8:45 am]
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