[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 118 (Monday, June 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34405-34406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-13876]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1933--Open Devicenet Vendor Association, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on may 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''), Open DeviceNet Vendor 
Association, Inc. 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

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plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, Moxa Networking Co. Ltd., Taipei, TAIWAN; Microwave Data 
Systems, Rochester, NY; and Agilicom, Tours, FRANCE have been added as 
parties to this venture. Also, Qualiflow, Montpellier, FRANCE; 
Cosmotechs Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JAPAN; Scientific Technologies, Inc., 
Fremont, CA; Mencom Corporation, Gainesville, GA; ABB Welding Systems 
AB, Laxa, SWEDEN; TR Controls, London, Ontario, CANADA; Wonderware 
Cooperation, Lebanon, OH; and Control Technology Incorporated, 
Knoxville, TN have been dropped as parties to this venture. The 
following members have changed their names: SST Division of Woodhead 
Canada to Woodhead Software & Electronics, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; 
Applicom International to Woodhead Software & Electronics, Waterloo, 
Ontario, CANADA; Cutler-Hammer, Inc. to Eaton Electrical Inc., 
Philadelphia, PA; and Hirschmann Electronics to Hirschmann Electronics 
GmbH & Co., Pine Brook, NJ.
    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 Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, 
Inc. intends to file additional written notification disclosing all 
changes in membership.
    On June 21, 1995, Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc. 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 February 15, 1996 (61 FR 6039).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 31, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on February 24, 2004 (69 FR 8483).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-13876 Filed 6-18-04; 8:45 am]
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