[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 6947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-3296]


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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 January 13, 2003, 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, Wael Badawy 
(individual member), Calgary, Alberta, CANADA; Barcelona Design, Inc., 
Newark, CA; Beijing Microelectronics Technology Institute, Fengtai, 
Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; CNRS-Centre Nationel De Recherche 
Scientifique, Paris, FRANCE; CPO Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, 
CA; Digeo Interactive LLC, Longmont, CO; Carolyn Hayden (individual 
member), Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Tomislav Ilic (individual member), 
San Francisco, CA; Jeda Technologies, Los Altos, CA; LSI Design & 
Integration Corporation (LDIC), San Jose, CA; NEC Electronics 
Corporation, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki, JAPAN; Vincent Ratford (individual 
member), San Jose, CA; WIS Technologies, San Jose, CA; and Christopher 
Wang (individual member), Costa Mesa, CA have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Antrim Design Systems, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA; Co-Design 
Automation, Los Altos, CA; Dolphin Integration, Meylan, FRANCE; 
Embedded Solutions, Ltd., Abingdon, UNITED KINGDOM; Kyoto University-
Department of Communications & Computer Engineering, Kyoto, JAPAN; 
Zainalabedin Navabi (individual member), Boston, MA; NEC Corporation, 
Nakahara-Ku Kawasaki, JAPAN; Nortel Networks, Nepean, Ontario, CANADA; 
Semifore Technologies, Irvine, CA; Simplex Solutions, Inc., Sunnyvale, 
CA; Spiratech Ltd., Radcliffe, UNITED KINGDOM; Spirea AB, Kista, 
SWEDEN; TransEDA, Eastleigh, UNITED KINGDOM; Prab Varma (individual 
member), Mountain View, CA; Vector 12 Corporation, Richmond, British 
Columbia, CANADA; and Verplex Systems, Inc., Milpitas, 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 VSI Alliance intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 9, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 8, 2002 (67 FR 68177).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-3296 Filed 2-10-03; 8:45 am]
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