[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 217 (Friday, November 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68177-68178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-28421]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--VSI Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 9, 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''), VSI Alliance 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, Adelante 
Technologies, Leuven, Belgium; HCL Technologies, Ltd., Chennai, India; 
Palmchip Corporation, San Jose, CA; Alfred Kwok (individual member), 
San Jose, CA; Hardy Pottinger (individual member), Rolla, MO; and Kumar 
Venkatramani (individual member), Saratoga, CA have been added as 
parties to this venture.
    Also, Artisan Components, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; D. K. Arvind 
(individual member), Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom; Atmos 
Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mark Buckner (individual 
member), Oak Ridge, TN; Jean-Paul Calvez (individual member), Nantes, 
France; Circuit Semantics, Inc., San Jose, CA; Ellipsis Digital 
Systems, Inc., Carlsbad, CA; Frontier Design, Leuven, Belgium; Dr. 
Peter Green (individual member), Manchester, England, United Kingdom; 
Ken Hodor (individual member), Sunnyvale, CA; Jennie Ltd., South 
Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; David Laone (individual member), 
San Jose, CA; Edward Lee (individual member), Berkeley CA; Tsung Lee 
(individual member), Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan; Malardalen University, 
Vasteras, Sweden; Nsine Limited, Reading, England, United Kingdom; 
Brahmaji Potu (individual member), Cupertino, CA; Wolfram Putzke-Roming 
(individual member), Oldenburg, Germany; Sandeep Shukla (individual 
member), Blacksburg, VA; Silicon Integration Initiative (SI2), Austin, 
TX; Sirius Communications NV, Rotselaar, Belgium; Sony Corporation, 
Tokyo, Japan; Teleraty Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; University of 
Kitakyushu (Dept. of Information), Fukuoka-ken, Japan; Vulcan Machines 
Limited, Royston, England, United Kingdom; Xi'an Swip Co., Ltd., 
Shaangxi, People's Republic of China; and Xylon, Zagreb, Croatia have 
been dropped as parties to this venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership of planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and VSI Alliance intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.

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    On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance filed its original notification 
pursuant to section 6(a) of this Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of 
the Act of March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 12, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on August 13, 2002 (67 FR 52746).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-28421 Filed 11-7-02; 8:45 am]
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