[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 52056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22081]


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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 23, 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''), Optical Internetworking Forum 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, Movaz 
Networks, McLean, VA; and FCI, Etters, PA have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Accelight Networks, Bridgeville, PA: ADC Communications, 
Charlotte, NC; Altamar Networks, Mountain View, CA; Alvesta 
Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Ample Communications, Fremont, CA; 
Axonlink, Petah Tikva, ISRAEL; Bandwidth9, Fremont, CA; Blue Sky 
Research, Milpitas, CA; Calix Networks, Petaluma, CA; Celion Networks, 
Tinton Falls, NJ; Centellax, Santa Rosa, CA; Centerpoint Broadband 
Technologies, San Jose, CA; Centre Tecnologic de Telecommunicacions de 
Catalunya, Barcelona, SPAIN; Ceybe, Kanata, Ontario, CANADA; Chiaro 
Networks, Richardson, TX; Cognigine, Fremont, CA; Coherent Telecom, San 
Jose, CA; Coriolis Networks, Boxboro, MA; E2O Communications, Rockland, 
DE; Equant Telecommunications, Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE; Extreme 
Networks, Santa Clara, CA; Fujikura, Santa Clara, CA; Future Soft 
Communications, San Jose, CA; JCP Photonics, Sunnyvale, CA; Kirana 
Networks, Red Bank, NJ; LuxN, Sunnyvale, CA; Nayna Networks, Milpitas, 
CA; Optillion, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Paxonet, Fremont, CA; Peta Switch 
Solutions, Santa Clara, CA; Pine Photonics, Fremont, CA; RF Micro 
Devices, Billerica, MA; RHK, North Attleborough, MA; Santel Networks, 
Newark, CA; Southampton Photonics, Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM; Stratos 
Lightwave, Mountain View, CA; Sumitomo Electric, Durham, NC; Taconic, 
Petersburgh, NY; Transpera Networks, San Jose, CA; Vativ, San Diego, 
CA; Velocium, El Segundo, CA; Wavium AB, Stockholm, SWEDEN; West Bay 
Semiconductor, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA; and Xindium, 
Champaign, IL 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 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 December 5, 2002 (67 FR 72429).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-22081 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]
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