[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 16552]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8266]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--eManufacturing Security Framework (Formerly 
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International)

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 5, 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''), Semiconductor Equipment and 
Materials International has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
changes in its name and 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, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials 
International, San Jose, CA, has been dropped as a party to this 
venture and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), one of the partners, 
has assumed the principal investigation and administrative role in the 
research and development project. In addition, the venture has been 
renamed and will henceforth be called the eManufacturing Security 
Framework.
    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 eManufacturing Security Framework 
(formerly Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)) 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On January 8, 2002, eManufacturing Security Framework (formerly 
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)) 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 8, 2002 (67 FR 10762).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 3, 
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. 03-8266 Filed 4-3-03; 8:45 am]
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