[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 25906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11956]


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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 April 8, 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, Agere Systems, 
Inc., Allentown, PA; ControlNet, Inc., Campbell, CA; M-Techno Structure 
IT-Solution GmbH, Vienna, Austria; NewLogic Technologies AG, Lustenau, 
Austria; Sanyo LSI Technology, India PVT. Ltd., Bangalore, India; 
TaraCom Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; True Circuits, Inc., 
Los Altos, CA; UMC, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; and Kurt Woodland (individual 
member), Morgan Hill, CA have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Arasan Chip Systems, San Jose, CA; Axeon Ltd, Aberdeen, 
Scotland, United Kingdom; Conexant Spinco, Inc., Newport Beach, CA; 
Lateral Sands, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Timothy 
O'Donnell (individual member), Los Gatos, CA; Robert Bosch GmbH, 
Reutlingen, Germany; Siroyan, Ltd., Reading, United Kingdom; Thales 
Group, Gennevilliers, France; TriMedia Technologies, Milpitas, CA; and 
WIS Technologies, San Jose, 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 January 13, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on February 11, 2003 (68 FR 6947).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-11956 Filed 5-13-03; 8:45 am]
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