[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 67649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-28143]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 5, 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''), PKI Forum, 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, Asia PKIForum, 
Tokyo, JAPAN has been added as a party to this venture. Also, Btexact 
Technologies, Ipswich, United Kingdom; CertCo, New York, NY; 
Communications Electronics Security Group, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 
United Kingdom; Deutsche Post Sign Trust GmbH, Bonn, Germany; Giesecke 
& Devrient, Munich, Germany; Mimos Berhard, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 
nCipher, Inc., Woburn, MA; NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; TC 
TrustCenter GmbH, Hamburg, Germany; U.S. Postal Services Headquarters, 
Washington, DC; and ValiCert, Mountain View, 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 PKI Forum, Inc. intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 2, 2001, PKI Forum, 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 May 3, 2001 (66 FR 22260).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 10, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on June 27, 2002 (67 FR 43343).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-28143 Filed 11-5-02; 8:45 am]
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