[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 203 (Thursday, October 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 61867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-23510]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Caterpillar Inc.: Consortium To Develop 
Positioning System for Machine Information System

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 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''), Caterpillar Inc.: 
Consortium to Develop Positioning System for Machine Information System 
(``CAT'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities of the parties to the venture 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 
to the venture are: Caterpillar Inc., Mossville, IL; and Applanix 
Corporation, Richmond Hill, Ontario, CANADA. The general areas of CAT's 
planned activities are to investigate methods to compensate for 
satellite shading that cause Caterpillar's information-based products 
such as CAES to cease giving useful positioning data. The activities of 
this Consortium will be partially funded by an award from the 
Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Dorothy F. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-23510 Filed 10-20-04; 8:45 am]
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