[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 156 (Friday, August 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 49262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20313]


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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 July 7, 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''), 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, Broadcom 
Corporation, Irvine, CA; Netopia, Inc., Alameda, CA; Xilinx, San Jose, 
CA; Beacon Networks, Marlboro, MA; Centillium Communications, Inc., 
Fremont, CA; Element 14, Inc., Cambridge, United Kingdom; Metro-Optix, 
Plano, TX; RapidWAN, Inc., San Jose, CA; and Seneca Networks, Inc., 
Rockville, MD have been added as parties to this venture. The following 
members have changed their names: BellSouth Services to BellSouth, 
Atlanta, GA; MCI WorldCom to WorldCom, Richardson, TX; and Promatory 
Communications, Inc. to Nortel Networks Broadband Access, Newark, CA. 
The following principal members have downgraded to auditing members: 
CYLINK Corp., Sunnyvale, CA; and Matra Marconi Space, Toulouse, France. 
The following auditing member has upgraded to a small business 
principal member: Woodwind Communications System, Inc., Germantown, MD.
    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 April 7, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on July 11, 2000 (65 FR 42725).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-20313 Filed 8-10-00; 8:45 am]
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