[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 234 (Thursday, December 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72429-72430]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-30791]


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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 Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership 
status. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the 
Act's provisions limiting the

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recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances. Specifically, Samsung, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Tsunami 
Photonics, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland; MergeOptics Gmbh, Berlin, Germany; 
ASTRI, Kowloon, Hong Kong-China; and Transpera Networks, San Jose, CA, 
have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Acorn Networks, Reston, VA; Aerie Networks, Denver, CO, 
Alidian Networks, San Jose, CA; Alphion, Eatontown, NJ; Appian 
Communications, Boxborough, MA; Applied Optoelectronics, Sugarland, TX; 
Atoga Systems, Fremont, CA; Bitmath, Fremont, CA; BrightLink Networks, 
Sunnyvale, CA; Cenix, Allentown, PA; Cielo Communications, Broomfield, 
CO; Cinta Networks, Beaverton, OR; CIVCOM, Petach-Tikva, Israel; Corona 
Optical Systems, Corning, NY; Cplane, Sunnyvale, CA; Crescent Networks, 
Lowell, MA; CyOptics, Los Angeles, CA; Efficient Channel Coding, 
Brooklyn Heights, OH; Entridia, Irvine, CA; FirstWave Intelligent 
Optical Networks, San Jose, CA; Gazillion Bits, Los Altos, CA; GDA 
Technologies, San Jose, CA; Gemfire, Palo Alto, CA; Genoa, Fremont, CA; 
Greenfield Networks, Santa Clara, CA; Gtran, Westlake Village, CA; GWS 
Photonics, Philadelphia, PA; Helic S.A., Alimos, Greece; Kerenix, 
P.Tikva, Israel; Kestrel Solutions, Mountain View, CA; Kodeos 
Communications, South Plainfield, NJ; Lambda Crossing, Caesarea, 
Israel; Laurel Networks, Pittsburgh, PA; Lightbit Corporation, Mountain 
View, CA; Maple Optical Systems, San Jose, CA; Memlink, Herzelia B, 
Isreal; MindTree Counsulting Pvt. Ltd, Banashankari, India; Network 
Photonics, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Opthos, San Carlos, CA; Optivera, 
Tel Aviv, Israel; Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, CA; Photonami, 
Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada; PicoLight, Boulder CO; Power X 
Networks, Sale, United Kingdom; Radiant Photonics, Inc., Austin, TX; 
Redfern Broadband Networks, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Silicon 
Bridge, Fremont, CA; SiPackets, Inc., Fremont, CA; Sparkolor, Santa 
Clara, CA; Syntera Communications, Fremont, CA; TelOptica, Richardson, 
TX; TeraBeam Networks, Seattle, WA; Terago Communications, Maple Grove, 
MN; Transparent Networks, Santa Clara, CA; Trellis Photonics, Yokneam 
Elite Israel; TriCN Associates, LLC, San Francisco, CA; Valiant 
Networks, San Jose, CA; Village Networks, Eatontown, NJ; VIPswitch, 
Brossard, Quebec, Canada; Vivace Networks, San Jose, CA; Yotta 
Networks, Plano, TX; C Speed Corp., Santa Clara, CA; CIR, 
Charlottesville, VA; Emperative, Boulder, CO; Geyser Networks, 
Sunnyvale, CA; Hyperchip, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Intelliden, 
Colorado Springs, CO; Jedai Broadband Networks, Red Bank, NJ; Optical 
Switch, Richardson, TX; Perihelion Associates, Mercerville, NJ; TSRI, 
Deerfield, IL; White Rock Networks, Dallas, TX; Applied Innovation, 
Dublin, OH; BellSouth Telecomminications, Atlanta, GA; BT, Ipswich, 
Suffolk, United Kingdom; Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY; FCI, 
Dorval, Quebec, Canada; Foundry Networks, San Jose, CA; 
GlobespanVirata, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; Honeywell, 
Cupertino, CA; Network Associates, Santa Clara, CA; OKI Electric 
Industry, Tokyo, Japan; Raza Foundries, San Jose, CA; Redback Networks, 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Riverstone Networks, Santa Clara, 
CA; Sorrento Networks, San Diego, CA; Transwitch Corporation, Bedford, 
MA; TyCom, Eatontown, NJ; WorldCom, Richardson, TX; Nokia, Santa Rosa, 
CA; Sprint, Westwood, KS; Acelo Semiconductor, Oxnard, CA; API 
Networks, Inc., Concord, MA; Dynamost, Murray Hill, NJ; Inara Networks, 
San Jose, CA; Japan Radio Co., Hikakrino-oka, Japan; KAIST, Yusong-gu, 
Republic of Korea; KPNQwest, Hoeilaart, Belgium; Marvell Technology, 
Sunnyvale, CA; Matsushita Communication Industrial, Kanagawa, Japan; 
Norlight Telecommunications, Brookfield, WI; Sonera Carrier Networks 
Ltd., Oulu, Finland; Tiburon Networks, Andover, MA; VTT Information 
Technology, Oulu, Finland; Zaiq Technologies, Woburn, MA; Arcor AG & 
Co., Eschborn, Germany; Fhg--IMK, Sankt Augustin, Germany; Hughes 
Software Systems Ltd., Haryana, India; and Nakra Labs, North Andover, 
MA have been dropped as parties to this venture.
    The following members have changed their names: CCL to Industrial 
Technology Research Institute, Hsin Chu, Taiwan; Tality to Cadence 
Design Systems, Cary, NC; Flextronics Semiconductor to Flextronics, 
Hillsboro, OR; TILAB S.p.A to Telecom Italia Lab, Torino, Italy; 
Octillion Communication to Lattice Semiconductor, San Jose, CA; and 
QOptics to ELEMATICS, Beaverton, OR.
    The following members have been involved with mergers: Paracer, 
Santa Clara, CA has merged into Stratos LightWave, Mountlake Terrace, 
WA; ONI Systems, San Jose, CA has merged into Ciena, Linthicum, MD; 
Dorsal Networks, Columbia, MD has merged into Corvis, Columbia, MD; and 
Octillion Communication, San Jose, CA has merged into Lattice 
Semiconductor, San Jose, CA.
    No other charges 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 July 22, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on September 4, 2002 (67 FR 56590).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-30791 Filed 12-04-02; 8:45 am]
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