[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 56590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Optical Internetworking Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 22, 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''), Optical Internetworking Forum 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, Dynamost, 
Murray Hill, NJ; Opticalis Systems, Center Valley, PA; ZTE Corporation, 
Shenzhen, GuangDong, People's Republic of China; Agere Systems, Murray 
Hill, NJ; Booz Allen Hamilton, Linthicum, MD; Larscom, Milpitas, CA; 
NetTest, Brondby, Denmark; Santel Networks, Newark, CA; TSRI, 
Deerfield, IL; Southampton Photonics, Southampton, United Kingdom; 
Xignal Technologies, Unterhaching, Germany; Centellax, Santa Rosa, CA; 
MultiWave Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; Corrigent Systems, San Jose, CA; 
Wavecrest Corporation, Eden Prairie, MN; and Equipe Communications, 
Acton, MA have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, KPN Telecom, Leidschendam, The Netherlands; Zettacom, Santa 
Clara; CA; Global Crossing, Madison, NJ; New Focus, San Jose, CA; 
Quantum Bridge, Andover, MA; AON Networks, Palo Alto, CA; Allegro 
Networks, San Jose, CA; Continuum Networks, Colorado Springs, CO; 
Gigatera, Dietikon, Switzerland; and Clearwater Networks, Los Gatos, CA 
have been dropped as parties to this venture.
    The following members have changed their names, Zepton Networks to 
Infinera, Sunnyvale, CA; Blueleaf Networks to Picarro, Sunnyvale, CA; 
Equant to Equant Telecommunications SA, Sophia Antipolis, France; 
XLOptics to Transpectrum, Los Angeles, CA; Gore & Associates to W.L. 
Gore & Associates, Elkton, MD; Xelerated Packet Devices to Xelerated, 
Stockholm, Sweden; and Korea Telecom to KT Corp., Taejeon, Republic of 
Korea.
    The following members have been involved with mergers: Astral 
Point, Chelmsford, MA has merged with Alcatel, Antwerpen, Belgium; Net 
Brahma Technologies, Bangalore, India has merged into Metro-Optix, 
Alan, TX; Ebone, Hoeilaart, Belgium has merged into KPNQwest, 
Hoeilaart, Belgium; Catamaran, San Jose, CA has merged into Infineon, 
San Jose, CA; and Virata, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom has 
merged with GlobespranVirata, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United 
Kingdom.
    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 Optical Internetworking Forum 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On October 5, 1998, Optical Internetworking Forum 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 January 29, 1999 (64 FR 4709).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 28, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on May 29, 2002 (67 FR 37441).

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