[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 133 (Tuesday, July 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42727-42728]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17407]


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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 October 8, 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''), 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, O-In Design 
Automation, Inc., San Jose, CA; Arasan Chip Systems, San Jose, CA; Axys 
Design Automation, Inc., Irvine, CA; Guy Bois, Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada; Communications Enabling Technologies, Irvine, CA; Desideratum 
Company, Moscow, Russia; Enabling Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; 
David Greenstein, Cupertino, CA; In-Chip Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; 
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan; Institute of System 
Level Integration, Livingston, United Kingdom; LEDA Systems, Inc., 
Plano, TX; Minoru Hasegawa, Tokyo, Japan; Mixel, Inc., San Jose, CA; 
PIXIM, Mountain View, CA; Q Systems, Inc., Feasterville, PA; RealChip, 
Sunnyvale, CA; Synplicity, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Teradyne, Inc.,

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Agoura Hills, CA; and X-VEIN, Inc., Tokyo, Japan have been added as 
parties to this venture. Also, AMS Group International, 
Unterpremstatten, Austria; Chronology Corp., Redmond, WA; DSP Group, 
Herzlia, Israel; Henry Davis Consulting, Inc., Soquel, CA; IDEC-IC 
Design Education Center, Taejon, South Korea; Integrated Intellectual 
Property, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; LightSpeed Semiconductor Corp., 
Sunnyvale, CA; Packet Engines, Inc., Spokane, WA; Richard Watts 
Associated, Ltd., Bedfordshire, United Kingdom; Scientific & 
Engineering Software, Inc., Austin, TX; Technical Data Freeway, Inc., 
Concord, MA; Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, 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 July 14, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on December 2, 1999 (64 FR 67592).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-17407 Filed 7-10-00; 8:45 am]
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