[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 10912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4063]


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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 October 26, 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''), 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 plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Steve Burchfiel, 
Austin, TX; Canon, Inc., Kawasaki, JAPAN; Embedded Solutions Ltd., 
Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM; eSilicon Corp., Palo Alto, CA; Duolog 
Technologies Limited, Dublin, IRELAND; Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo 
Alto, CA; Edward Lee, Berkeley, CA; Ian Mackintosh, San Jose, CA; Nsine 
Limited, Reading, UNITED KINGDOM; NurLogic Design, Inc., San Diego, CA; 
Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC), Tokyo, 
JAPAN; The Athena Group, Inc., Gainesville, FL; and Verisity Design, 
Inc., Mountain View, CA have been added as parties to this venture. 
Also, Advanced Bytes & Rights Ltd., Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM; Cogency 
Technology, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; EnThink, Inc., Santa Clara, 
CA; Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, SINGAPORE; Integrated 
Chipware, Reston, VA; Seagate Technology, Scotts Valley, CA; Synthesis 
Corp., Osaka, JAPAN; and Unisys Corp., San Diego, 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 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 July 13, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on October 3, 2000 (65 FR 59018).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-4063 Filed 2-16-01; 8:45 am]
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