[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 46 (Friday, March 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 10761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5539]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Storage Industry Consortium--Heat 
Assisted Magnetic Recording (``HAMR'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 8, 2002, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), National Storage Industry 
Consortium (``NSIC'') has filed written notifications on behalf of a 
joint research and development venture with Heat Assisted Magnetic 
Recording (``HAMR'') 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 Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA; Advanced 
Research Corporation, Minneapolis, MN; MEMS Optical, Inc., Huntsville, 
AL; and NSIC, San Diego, CA. The following universities have joined 
NSCI-HAMR as university associate members: Carnegie Mellon University, 
Pittsburgh, PA; and The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The 
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The nature and objectives of the 
venture are to develop and demonstrate materials, optical and magnetic 
components, and engineering modeling tools for a novel means of 
overcoming the superparamagnetic limit in magnetic recording, enabling 
increases in storage densities to one trillion bits per square inch and 
beyond.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-5539 Filed 3-7-02; 8:45 am]
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