[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 156 (Friday, August 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49261-49262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20303]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The ATM Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 15, 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''), The ATM 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, Novanet 
Semiconductor, Raanana, Israel; CopperCom, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; and 
Qwest Communications, Inc., Arlington, VA have been added as parties to 
this venture. The following members of The ATM Forum have changed their 
names: ATM Systems to AMP-MA/COM, Inc., Harrisburg, PA; Rockwell 
Semiconductor Systems, Inc. to Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, 
CA; GPT Ltd. to Marconi Communications, Poole Dorset, United Kingdom; 
MCI Communications, Inc. to MCI WorldCom, Inc., Richardson, TX; 
Northern Telecom Limited to Nortel Networks, Nashville, TN; Stentor 
Resource Centre, Inc. to Stentor Canadian Network Management, Inc., 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and General Signal Networks to Inrange 
Technologies Corporation, Mount Laurel, NJ. Furukawa Electric 
Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Telogy Networks, Incorporated, 
Germantown, MD; and Telstra Corporation Ltd., Clayton, Australia 
downgraded from principal to auditing members. Societe Europeenne Des 
Satellites S.A., Betzdorf, Luxemborg has upgraded from an auditing to a 
principal member. Also o.tel.o Communications GmbH & Co., Koln, 
Germany; and TTK Consulting, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 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 The ATM Forum intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 19, 1993, The ATM 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 June 2, 1993 (58 FR 31415).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 21, 
1998. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the

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Act on December 31, 1998 (63 FR 72329).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
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