[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 126 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 40133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16472]


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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, Ltd. 
(``The WAP Forum''

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 5, 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, Ltd. (``The WAP Forum'') 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, 724 Solutions, 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Adera, Gothenburg, Sweden; Aether Systems, 
Inc., Owings Mills, MD; Agency.com, London, United Kingdom; Airtel 
Movil, S.A., Madrid, Spain; Akumiitti Ltd, Helsinki, Finland; AltaWave 
Inc., Cupertino, CA; Angelica Wireless, Vanlose, Denmark; Argot 
Interactive Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom; Aspiro, 
Malmo, Sweden; At Home Corporation, Redwood City, CA; AtMotion, 
Incorporated, Redwood Shores, CA; Avenir ASA, Oslo, Norway; BEA 
Systems, San Francisco, CA; Bul CP8, Louveciennes, France; Centre for 
Wireless Communications, Singapore, Singapore; Cerulean Technology, 
Inc., Marlboro, MA; Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., San Francisco, CA; 
CoCoNet Global Interchange GmbH, Erkrath, Germany; Concis Consulting, 
Stockholm, Sweden; Cyber-COMM, Paris, France; CycleLogic, Miami, FL; 
Data on Air, Inc., Orlando, FL; Digital Bridges Limited, Fife, 
Scotland, United Kingdom; Diversinet Corp., Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 
Eircell, Dublin, Ireland; Entra Data AB, Stockholm, Sweden; Entrust 
Technologies Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Evolving Systems, Inc., 
Englewood, CO; FarEasTone Telecommunications Co., Taipei, Hsien, 
Taiwan; Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA; Framtidsfabriken AB, 
Stockholm, Sweden; FusionOne, Inc., Los Gatos, CA; Globalaccess 
Internet Ltd., London, United Kingdom; Hyperwave, Graz, Austria; Icon 
Medialab International, Tampere, Finland; ILICO Limited, Covent Garden, 
United Kingdom; Infinite Technologies, Owings Mills, MD; Information 
Highway AB, Sundbyberg, Sweden; Information Mechanics, Inc., Englewood, 
CO; Infowave Softwave, Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; 
Intelligent Information Inc., Stamford, CT; Intershop Communications 
GmbH, Hamburg, Germany; Jinny Software Ltd., Dublin, Ireland; LG 
TeleCom, Ltd, Seoul, South Korea; LPG Innovations Ltd., Helsinki, 
Finland; MasterCard International Inc., Purchase, NY; MAZ 
Mikroelektronik, Hamburg, Germany; Melody Interactive Solutions AB, 
Stockholm, Sweden; Myalertcom, SA, Madrid, Spain; NEC Corporation, 
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; Nedecon-Network Development, Espoo, Finland; 
Novo Meridian Oy, Espoo, Finland; Palm Computing Inc., Santa Clara, CA; 
pc-plus Computing, Munich, Germany; PCS Innovations Inc., Brossard, 
Quebec, Canada; Pioneer Corporation, Saitama-ken, Japan; Portal 
Software, Incorporated, Cupertino, CA; RTS Networks Finland Oy, Espoo, 
Finland; Sanoma-WSOY Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; screamingmedia.com, San 
Diego, CA; Setec Oy, Vantaa, Finland; Sharp Corporation, Hiroshima, 
Japan; SmartServ Online, Inc., Stamford, CT; space2go.com GmbH & Co., 
Berlin, Germany; STMicroelectronics, Inc., San Jose, CA; Telocity, 
Inc., Cupertino, CA; Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., Istanbul, 
Turkey; Ubiguity S.R.L., Milan, Italy; Universal Communication 
Platform, Vienna, Austria; VeriSign, Inc., Wakefield, MA; VIAGA 
Interkom GmbH & Co., Muenchen, Germany; Vicinity Corporation, Palo 
Alto, CA; Virtual, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan; VISA International, Foster 
City, CA; Webraska Mobile Technologies, Poissy Cedex, France; and 
Zillion AG, Zurich, Switzerland have been added as parties to this 
venture. Also, BEA WebXpress, San Francisco, 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 Wireless Application Protocol Forum, 
Ltd. (``The WAP Forum'') intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On March 18, 1998, Wireless Application Protocol Forum, Ltd. (``The 
WAP Forum'') 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 July 9, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on April 28, 2000 (65 FR 24985).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-16472 Filed 6-28-00; 8:45 am]
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