[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13971-13972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5715]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--PXI Systems Alliance, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 22, 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''), PXI Systems Alliance, Inc. 
has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities 
of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to section 6(b) of the 
Act, the identities of the parties are A&T Engineering Technology 
Center, Mystic, CT; Acqiris, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Advanced Power 
Designs, Irvine, CA; Advanced Text Methods, Camberley, Surrey, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Alphi Technology, Tempe, AZ; Analogic Data Conversion 
Products, Wakefield, MA; ARVOO Engineering, Woerden, THE NETHERLANDS, 
ASCOR, Fremont, CA; ATEME, Velizy, FRANCE; B&B Technologies, 
Albuquerque, NM; Ballard Technology, Inc., Everett, WA; BittWare 
Research Systems, Concord, NH; Bloomy Controls, Windsor, CT; Bode 
Enterprises, San Diego, CA; Boulder Instruments, Longmont, CO; BRIME, 
Courtaboeuf Cedex, FRANCE, C&H Technologies, Austin, TX; CHROMA ATE 
Inc., Wu-Ku, Taipei Hsien, TAIWAN; ComputerBoards, Middleboro, MA; 
CORTEST, Willoughby, OH; Data Patterns, Chennai, INDIA; Datappli, 
Midland, MI; Datum, San Jose, CA; Dolch Computer Systems, Fremont, CA; 
ERNI Components, Chester, VA; GenRad, Westford, MA; Gespac Corporation, 
Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Goepel Electronic, Jena, GERMANY, GTE-ERS, 
Ontario, CA; Innovative Integration, Westlake Village, CA; Kinetic 
Systems, Lockport, IL; LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, NY; MAC Panel, High 
Point, NC; Marconi Integrated Systems, San Diego, CA; MarekMicro GmbH, 
Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY; MEN Mikro Elektronik, Nuremberg, GERMANY; 
National Instruments, Austin, TX; Pickering Interfaces, Grants Pass, 
OR; PX Instrument Technology, Bray, County Wicklow, IRELAND; Quantum 
Controls, Plymouth, MI; Racal Instruments, Irvine, CA; Rohde & Schwarz 
GmbH & Co KG, Munchen, GERMANY; SBS GreenSpring Computers, Menlo Park, 
CA; Pentair Electronic Packaging, Warwick, RI; Shaanxi Hitech, Xi'an, 
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Kaparel Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, 
CANADA; SRC Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Tracewell Systems, Westerville, 
OH; TTI Testron, Orlando, FL; Vero/APW Electronics, Southhampton, 
Hampshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Virginia Panel Corp., Waynesboro, VA; Znyx, 
Fremont, CA; United Electronic Industries, Inc., Watertown, MA; Modular 
Integration Technologies, Boonton, NJ; Alfautomazione S.r.l., Lissone, 
ITALY; and PLD Applications, Gardanne, FRANCE.

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    The nature and objectives of the venture are to promote the PXI 
specification as an extension to the CompactPCI industrial computer 
specification where the PXI specification defines extensions for 
instrumentation; to sponsor, actively participate in, and support the 
creation and maintenance of one or more card based specifications for 
instruments, measurement and automation systems, and/or protocols to 
enable manufacturers of various devices to achieve interoperability of 
such devices; to promote the adoption and use of specifications and 
protocols for card based instrumentation through the development of 
proof of concept/feasibility demonstrations, pilot/prototype projects, 
and a free and open exchange of technologies among the Members; and to 
undertake such other activities as may from time to time be appropriate 
to further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth above.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-5715 Filed 3-7-01; 8:45 am]
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