[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 67648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-28142]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--AAF Association, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 17, 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''), AAF Association, Inc. 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, Adobe 
Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA; Cakewalk, Boston, MA; da vinci Systems, 
Inc., Coral Springs, FL; Nucoda, London, England, United Kingdom; and 
the Post Group, Hollywood, CA have been added as parties to this 
venture. The following member has changed its name: techmath AG to blue 
order, Inc., Kaiserlautern, Germany. Grass Valley Group, Beaverton, OR 
was acquired by Thomson multimedia, Inc., Boulogne, cedex, France and 
will continue under the name of Thomson Valley Group. Also, Ascential 
Software, Oakland, CA; eMotion, Inc., Los Angeles, CA; and Omneon Video 
Networks, Sunnyvale, CA 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 AAF Association, Inc. intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On March 28, 2000, AAF Association, Inc. 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 June 29, 2000 (65 FR 40127).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 13, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on July 25, 2002 (67 FR 48670).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-28142 Filed 11-5-02; 8:45 am]
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