[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 59018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25306]


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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 July 13, 2000, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 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 plantiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Alcatel 
Internetworking (PE), Inc., Spokane, WA; Artec Design Group, Tallinn, 
Estonia; Ben Cheese Electronic Design, Royston, United Kingdom; Chip 
Implementation Center, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; Johan Cockx (individual 
member), Leuven, Belgium; Dr. Peter Green (individual member), 
Manchester, United Kingdom; Innoveda Ltd., Herzliyya, Israel; Lavetate 
Design Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR; Malardalen University, Vasteras, 
Sweden; Pixelfusion Ltd., Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom; Siroyan 
Limited, Reading, England, United Kingdom; Socip Group of Korea, Seoul, 
Republic of Korea; Thomson Multimedia, Villingen-Schwennigen, Germany; 
and TriMedia Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA have been added as parties to 
this venture. Also, Actel Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Escalade, Santa 
Plano, TX; NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA; SandCraft, 
Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Scottish Enterprise, Livingston, Scotland, 
United Kingdom; and VAutomation, Inc., Nashua, NH 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 April 18, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on June 30, 2000 (65 FR 40694).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-25306 Filed 10-2-00; 8:45 am]
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