[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 146 (Monday, July 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 39336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-18906]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Interchangeable Virtual Instruments Foundation, 
Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 29, 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''), Interchangeable Virtual 
Instruments Foundation, 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 
Advantest Corporation, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN; Agilent Technologies, 
Loveland, CO; ASCOR, Fremont, CA; BAE Systems, Edinburgh, UNITED 
KINGDOM; BCO, Inc., Billerica, MA; Bode Enterprises, San Diego, CA; C&H 
Technologies, Round Rock, TX; Ericsson Radio Systems, Aktie Bolag, 
Gevle, SWEDEN; Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, OH; LeCroy, Chestnut 
Ridge, NY; Lucent Technologies, Columbus, OH; National Instruments, 
Austin, TX; Nokia Mobile Phones, Inc., San Diego, CA; Northrop Grumman 
ESSS, Baltimore, MD; Pacific MindWords, Inc., San Diego, CA; PX 
Instrument Technology, Bray, County Wicklow, IRELAND; Racal Instruments 
Inc., San Antonio, TX; Rohde & Schwarz, Muehldorfstr, Munich, GERMANY; 
Software AG, San Ramon, CA; Tektronix, Beaverton, OR; Teradyne, North 
Reading, MA; The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; The MathWorks, Inc., 
Natick, MA; TYX, Reston, VA; and Vektrex Electronic Systems, San Diego, 
CA.
    The nature and objectives of the venture are: (a) to promote the 
development and adoption of standard specifications for programming 
test instrument capabilities (``Specifications''); (b) to focus on the 
needs of the people that use and develop test systems who must take 
off-the-shelf instrument drivers and build and maintain high-
performance test systems; (c) to build on existing industry standards 
to deliver specifications that simplify interchanging instruments and 
provide for better performing and more easily maintainable programs 
that use IVI drivers; (d) to support such specifications and solutions 
worldwide to ensure that a broad spectrum of goods and services is 
developed and available; (e) to investigate and, if approved by the 
Board of Directors, participate in a program to provide for testing and 
conformity assessment of products implementing Specifications; (f) to 
create and own distinctive trademarks; (g) to operate a branding 
program based upon distinctive trademarks to create high customer 
awareness of, demand for, and confidence in products designed in 
compliance with the Specifications; and (h) 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. 01-18906 Filed 7-27-01; 8:45 am]
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