[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59017-59018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25307]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 12, 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''), Enterprise Computer Telephony 
Forum (``ECTF'') 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, Dialogic, an Intel company, Parsippany, NJ; Locus 
Dialogue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Comsys International by, Zeist, The 
Netherlands; Eicon Technology Corporation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 
Group 2000 Nederland BV, Almelo, The Netherlands; ipGen, Inc., Dallas, 
TX; Lasat Networks, Bagsvaerd, Denmark; Necsy SPS, Padova, Italy; 
NetPhone, Marlborough, MA; NovaVox AG, Zuerich, Switzerland; and Temic, 
Stuttgart, Germany, have been added as parties to this venture. Also, 
Amteva Technologies, Glen Allen, VA; CSS TrexCom, Inc., Norcross, GA; 
Cisco Systems, Manchester, NH; Dialogic Corporation, Parsippany, NJ; 
Excel Switching Corporation, Hyannis, MA; Microsoft Corporation, 
Redmond, WA; Nokia Networks, Helsinki, Finland; Nortel Networks, 
Verdun, Quebec, Canada; SI Logic Limited, Aldermaston, England, United 
Kingdom; Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA; Ariel Corporation, 
Carnbury, NJ; Artesyn Communications Products, Inc., Madison, WI; Bell 
Actimedia, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; BST Communication Technology, 
Ltd., Guan Zhou, Peoples Republic of China; Comverse Network Systems, 
Andover, MA; Daimler-Benz Aerospace, Stuttgart, Germany; De Te We 
Kommunications, Berlin, Germany; ERNI Components, Inc., Chester, VA; 
E.T.R.I, Taejon, Republic of Korea; Executone, Milford, CT; Force 
Computers, San Jose, CA; Frequentis Nachrichtentechnik Ges.m.b.H, 
Vienna, Austria; Global Communications Systems Research, Alexandria, 
VA; Hewlett Packard Company, Cupertino, CA; Intervoice, Dallas, TX; 
Marconi Communications, Coventry, England, United Kingdom; Mitsubishi 
Electronic Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan; Periphonics Corporation, 
Bohemia, NY; Sonetech, Inc., Sterling, VA; Syntellect, Inc., Phoenix, 
AZ; Teloquent Communications, Billerica, MA; and Xerox Coporation, Palo 
Alto, 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 ECTF intends

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to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On February 20, 1996, ECTF 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 
May 13, 1996 (61 FR 22074).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 6, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register on July 11, 2000 
(65 FR 42725).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-25307 Filed 10-2-00; 8:45 am]
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