[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 156 (Friday, August 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 49266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20309]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Purusant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Personalization Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 15, 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''), Personalization Consortium, Inc. 
has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities 
of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 
Act, the identities of the parties are Next Click: The Personalization 
Agency, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ul.Net, Marlton, NJ; BroadVision, 
Inc., Redwood City, CA; Elity Systems, Inc., Somerset, NJ; Peppers and 
Rogers Group, Stamford, CT; American Airlines, Fort Worth, TX; 
Frequency Marketing, Inc., Milford, OH; Sneakerlabs, Inc., Pittsburgh, 
PA; Wheelhouse Corporation, Burlington, MA; YOUpowered, New York, NY; 
Chell.com, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; icontact.com, Fairfield, CT; 
Servicesoft Technologies, Natick, MA; Magnify, Chicago, IL; 
Individualize.com, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; E.piphany, San Mateo, CA; 
eSupplies.com, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; KPMG Consulting, LLC, Mountain 
View, CA; i-Behavior Inc., White Plains, NY; !hey software inc., North 
Andover, MA; Nexgenix, Irvine, CA; exactis.com, Denver, CO; PrivaSeek, 
Broomfield, CO; eCustomers.com, Austin, TX; PricewaterhouseCoopers, New 
York, NY; DoubleClick, New York, NY; CustomerAnalytics, Dallas, TX; 
Protigen, Inc., Mountain View, CA; Unica Corporation, Lincoln, MA; 
Kurion, Austin, TX; MarketTools, Inc., Sausalito, CA; 24/7 Media, Inc., 
New York, NY; SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL; k-Commerce Sales, a division of 
Inference, San Mateo, CA; Allaire Corporation, Cambridge, MA; 
Macromedia, Inc., San Francisco, CA; WISE iTech Co., Ltd., Seoul, 
Korea; Federated Investors, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Be Free, Inc., 
Marlborough, MA; SAS, Cary, NC; PrivacyRight, Inc., San Mateo, CA; BEA 
Systems, San Jose, CA; and CERES RO, Relationship Technology solutions 
by NCR, Raleigh, NC.
    The nature and objectives of the venture are (a) to educate the 
market, sponsor research, foster standards and articulate the 
measurable benefits of personalization technologies and techniques; (b) 
to serve as a forum for discussion of related issues, sponsor industry 
research, develop open standards and guidelines and promote best 
practices; and (c) to undertake such other activities as may from time 
to time be appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the goals 
set forth above.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20309 Filed 8-10-00; 8:45 am]
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