[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 221 (Friday, November 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 69245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-28949]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Multiservice Switching Forum

    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''), Multiservice Switching 
Forum (``MSF'') 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, Bay Packets, Fremont, CA; Catena Networks, Morrisville, 
NC; Convedia Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Empirix, 
Wilmington, MA; Italtel, Milan, Italy; KT Corporation, Seoul, South 
Korea; Leapstone Systems, Somerset, NJ; MetaSwitch, Alameda, CA; 
National Communications System, Arlington, VA; NetTest, Markham, 
Ontario, Canada; Spirent Communications, Sunnyvale, CA; and ZTE 
Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China have been added as parties to 
this venture. ipVerse has changed its name to NexVerse, San Jose, CA; 
and LM Ericsson has changed its name to Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden. 
Also, Armillaire Technologies, Bethesda, MD; CPlane, Menlo Park, CA; 
Data Connection, Enfield, United Kingdom; France Telecom, Lannion, 
Cedex. France; General Bandwidth, Austin, TX; Intel, Santa Clara, CA; 
KPN Telecom, The Hague, The Netherlands; Mahi Networks, Petaluma, CA; 
Mercury Communications, Middletown, NJ; Nokia, Helsinki, Finland; OKI 
Electric Industry, Chiba, Japan; SBC, Austin, TX; Swisscom AG, Berne, 
Switzerland; Tachion Networks, Eatontown, NJ; Telcordia Technologies, 
Morristown, NJ; Telecom Italia, Rome Italy; Turin Networks, Petaluma, 
CA; Voxpath Networks, Austin, TX; and Westwave Communications, Santa 
Rosa, 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 MSF intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 22, 1999, MSF 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 26, 1999 (64 FR 28519).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 4, 
2001. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on May 23, 2001 (66 FR 28546).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-28949 Filed 11-14-02; 8:45 am]
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