[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 195 (Friday, October 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59874-59875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25720]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Multiservice Switching Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 29, 2000, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the

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National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 
4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Multiservice Switching Forum (``MSF'') 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, Accelerated 
Networks, Moorpark, CA; Oki Electric, Chiba, Japan; and Swisscom AG, 
Berne, Switzerland have been added as parties to this venture. Vertex 
Networks, San Jose, CA has been dropped as a party to this venture. 
Also, the following parties have changed their names: Hewlett Packard, 
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom is now Agilent, Edinburgh, 
Scotland, United Kingdom; Harris & Jeffries, Dedham, MA is now 
NetPlane, Dedham, MA; and MCIWorldCom, Richardson, TX is now WorldCom, 
Richardson, TX.
    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 MSF intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 22, 1999, MSF 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 26, 1999 (64 FR 28519).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 6, 
2000. A notice for this filing has not yet been published in the 
Federal Register.

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