[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 232 (Friday, December 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70283-70284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26614]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 18, 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''), Semiconductor Test 
Consortium, 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 plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., Portland, OR; 
Hilevel Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA; Micro Component Technology, St. 
Paul, MN; Reid Ashman Manufacturing, St. George, UT; Salland 
Engineering International BV, Zwolle, THE NETHERLANDS; and Toshiba 
Corporation Semiconductor Company, Tokyo, JAPAN have been added 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 Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On May 27, 2003, Semiconductor Test Consortium, 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 June 17, 2003 (68 FR 35913).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 20, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal

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Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on August 18, 2004 (69 FR 
51329).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26614 Filed 12-2-04; 8:45 am]
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