[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 85 (Monday, May 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24195-24196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10001]


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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 12, 2004, 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, Atrenta, Inc., San 
Jose, CA; Steve Bibyk (individual member), Columbus, OH; Bitboys Oy, 
Noormarkku, Finland; Certess, Voreppe, France; Digitas, Tranby, Norway; 
Richard Stolzman (individual member), Campbell, CA; and Tower 
Semiconductors, Migdal Haemek, Israel have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Advantest, Gunma, Japan; Analog Devices, Norwood, MA; 
Barcelona Designs, Newark, CA; CAST, Inc., Nyack, NY; IMEC, Leuven, 
Belgium; InTime Software, Cupertino, CA; Matsushita Electric 
Industrial, Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan; Microelectronics Research Insit 
PROGRESS, Moscow, Russia; ModelWare, Inc., Red Bank, NJ; NEC 
Electronics Corp., Santa Clara, CA; Piiri Technologies Oy, Oulu, 
Finland; Sharp Corporation, Tenri, Japan; SPaSE BV, Nijmegen, The 
Netherlands; Telecom Italia, Torino, Italy; Vast Systems, Inc., San 
Jose, CA; and Christopher Wang (individual member), Tokyo, Japan 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 10, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the

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Act on November 12, 2003 (68 FR 64126).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-10001 Filed 4-30-04; 8:45 am]
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