[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 57 (Friday, March 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16294-16295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7195]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Multiservice Switching Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 6, 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''), Multiservice Switching Forum 
(``MSF'') 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, 2nd Century Communications, Tampa, FL; ADC 
Telecommunications, Richardson, TX; Daewoo Telecom,

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Middletown, NJ; Intel, Santa Clara, CA; PairGain Technologies, Tustin, 
CA; Santera Systems, Plano, TX; Tachion Networks, Eatontown, NJ; Vertex 
Networks, San Jose, CA; and Vivace Networks, San Jose, CA have been 
added as parties to this venture. Also, Abrizio, Mountain View, CA; 
AT&T, San Jose, CA; Bosch, Stuttgart, Germany; Convergent 
Communications, Englewood, CO; Data Connection, Enfield, England, 
United Kingdom; IBM, Armonk, NY; Mariner Networks, Anaheim, CA; 
Motorola, Mansfield, MA; NetCore Systems, Wilmington, MA; Net Insight 
AB, Stockholm, Sweden; Newbridge Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada; 
Oresis Communications, Beaverton, OR; SK Telecom, Seoul, Republic of 
Korea; and Sprint, Overland Park, KS 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 MSF intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 22, 1999, MSF 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 
May 26, 1999 (64 FR 28519).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 12, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on May 12, 2000 (65 FR 30611).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-7195 Filed 3-22-01; 8:45 am]
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