[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 213 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 65881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28180]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 7, 1999, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``Act''), The Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber 
Line Forum (``ADSL'') 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, Catena Technologies, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; Earthlink, 
Pasadena, CA; East by North, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Netopia, 
Alameda, CA; Secre Composants S.A., Pontault, Comboerl, France; WCI 
Cable, Dover, DE; and Telecordia Technologies, Morristown, NJ have been 
added as parties to this venture. Also, Accelerated Networks, Inc., 
Westlake Village, CA; Advanced Hardware Architectures, Pullman, WA; 
Amphenol Canada Corp., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; Applied 
Innovation, Dublin, OH; Ascend Communications, Westford, MA; Bellcore, 
Morristown, NJ; Cirrus Logic, Fremont, CA; Communications Technology, 
Inc., Cranbery, NJ; Escalate Networks, Irvine, CA; Flowpoint Corp., Los 
Gatos, CA; General Signal Networks, Westford, MA; GenRad, Inc., 
Westford, MA; Globaloop, Ltd., Kfar Sava, Israel; Global Village 
Communication, Sunnyvale, CA; Iterated Systems, Atlanta, GA; KTL, 
Arnhem, The Netherlands; Madge Networks, Wexham, England, United 
Kingdom; Milgo Solutions, Inc., Sunrise, FL; Robertson, Stephens & Co., 
San Francisco, CA; Shasta Networks, Menlo Park, CA; Telia AB, 
Stockholm, Sweden; Torrent Networking Technologies, Silver Spring, MD; 
Tut Systems, Inc., Pleasant Hill, CA; and Web Silicon, Los Gatos, 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 ADSL intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On May 15, 1995, ADSL 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 July 25, 
1995 (60 FR 338058).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 23, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on June 1, 1999 (64 FR 29356).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-28180 Filed 11-1-00; 8:45 am]
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