[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 52931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19770]


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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 august 5, 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''), 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, Scientific 
Atlanta, Inc., Lawrenceville, GA; Aevix Systems, Gifsur-Yvette, FRANCE; 
and Enigma Semiconductor, Copenhagen, DENMARK have been added as 
parties to this venture. Also, America Online, Reston, VA; Artisan 
Components, San Diego, CA; Emcore, Albuquerque, NM; Finisar 
Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Ibiden, Gifu, JAPAN; Mitretek Systems, 
Falls Church, VA; Sun Microsystems, Los Angeles, CA; Acuid, Midlothian, 
Dalkeith, UNITED KINGDOM; Agility Communications, Santa Barbara, CA; 
Analogix Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA; ASTRI, Kowloon, HONG KONG-
CHINA; Bit Blitz Communications, Milpitas, CA; Calient Networks, San 
Jose, CA; Chunghwa Telecom Labs, Tao Yuan, TAIWAN; CIVCOM, Petach-
Tikvah, ISRAEL; Corrigent Systems, San Jose, CA; Corvis Corporation, 
Columbia, MD; Galazar Networks, Ottowa, Ontario, CANADA; Helix AG, 
Zurich, SWITZERLAND; Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, 
TAIWAN; Intelligent Photonics Control, Kanata, Ontario, CANADA; Intune 
Technologies, Ltd., Dublin, IRELAND; KeyEye Communications, Sacramento, 
CA; Lumentis, Haagerston, SWEDEN; NIST, Gathersburg, MD; PhotonEx, 
Maynard, MA; Phyworks, Temple Quay, UNITED KINGDON; Silicon Access 
Networks, Ottowa, Ontario, CANADA; Tellium, Oceanport, NJ; Wavecrest 
Corporation, Eden Prairie, MN; Xanoptix, Merrimack, NH; Cray, Chippewa 
Falls, WI; Ericcson, Stockholm, SWEDEN; FiberHome Telecommunications, 
Wuhan, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Intelligent Telecom, Taejon, 
REPUBLIC OF KOREA; ITSD, Ministry of Management Services, Victoria, 
British Columbia, CANDA; Marvell Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, CA; 
MathStar, Minnetonka, MN; Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA; 
Motorola, Austin, TX; Virtual Silicon Technology, Sunnyvale, CA; China 
Academy of Telecommunications Research, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA; and Georgia Institute of technology, Atlanta, GA have been 
dropped as parties to this venture.
    Also, Photuris, Inc., Piscataway, NJ was acquired by Mahi Networks, 
Petaluma, CA; Procket Networks, San Jose, CA was acquired by Cisco 
Systems, San Jose, CA; and Velio Communications, Milpitas, CA was 
acquired by LSI Logic, Milpitas, CA.
    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 fill 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 April 5, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on May 3, 2004 (69 FR 24195).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-19770 Filed 8-27-04; 8:45 am]
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