[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 227 (Friday, November 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 70613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29985]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Salutation Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 18, 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''), Salutation Consortium, 
Inc. 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, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Bethesda, 
MD; and Daniel Stevenson, Cambridge, MA have been added as parties to 
this venture. Also, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA; Hitachi, 
Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 
Pistachio Software, Inc., Portland, OR; Sharp Corporation, Nara, Japan; 
TRG Products, Inc., Des Moines, IA; and Walletware, Inc., Irvine, CA 
have been dropped as parties to this venture. The following members 
have changed their names: Koos W. Hussem to Square USA, Inc., Basking 
Ridge, NJ; Shazia Azhar to Consumer Electronics Association, Arlington, 
VA; MicroBurst to Mburst, Rockville, MD; and Mita to Kyocera Mita, 
Osaka, Japan.
    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 Salutation Consortium, Inc. intends 
to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On March 30, 1995, Salutation Consortium, Inc. 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 27, 1995 (60 FR 33233).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 19, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on August 11, 2000 (64 FR 49266).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-29985 Filed 11-22-00; 8:45 am]
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