[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 130 (Thursday, July 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 41281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-15460]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Nano-Imprint Lithography Infrastructure for Low 
Cost Replication at the 65NM Node and Beyond

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 9, 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''), Nano-Imprint Lithography 
Infrastructure for Low Cost Replication at the 65nm Node and Beyond has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the 
parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 
Act, the identities of the parties are Molecular Imprints, Inc., 
Austin, TX; KLA-Tencor Corporation, San Jose, CA; Motorola, Inc., 
Tempe, AZ; Photronics, Inc., Brookfield, CT; and The University of 
Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. The nature and objectives of the venture 
are to design and demonstrate technology for step and flash imprint 
lithography (S-FIL), a novel method of transferring integrated circuit 
patterns to the surface of a semiconductor wafer by molding of three 
dimensional features potentially as small as 20 nanometers or less.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-15460 Filed 7-7-04; 8:45 am]
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