[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 13972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5717]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Semiconductor Research Corporation

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 26, 2001, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Semiconductor Research 
Corporation 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, Conexant Systems, Newport Beach, CA; United 
Microelectronics Corporation Group of Taiwan, Hsin-Chu City, TAIWAN; 
Integrated Systems Engineering, Inc., San Jose, CA; Genus, Inc., 
Sunnyvale, CA; Torrex Equipment Corporation, Livermore, CA; and 
Ziptronix, Inc., Research Triangle, NC have been added as parties to 
the venture. In addition, Etec Systems, Inc., Hayward, CA; Harris 
Corporation, Melbourne, FL; Microbar Incorporated, Sunnyvale, CA; 
Northrop Grumman, Los Angeles, CA; Omniview, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Suss 
Advanced Lithography, Inc., Burlington, VT; and Verity Instruments, 
Inc., Carrollton, TX have been dropped as parties to the 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 Semiconductor Research Corporation 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On January 7, 1985, Semiconductor Research Corporation filed its 
original notification pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The 
Departent of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register 
pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on January 30, 1985 (50 FR 4281).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 4, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on December 14, 1999 (64 FR 69800).

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