[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 241 (Thursday, December 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 75347]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27547]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance 
Organization

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 30, 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''), The Mortgage Industry 
Standards Maintenance Organization (``MISMO'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the name and principal place of 
business of the standards development organization and (2) the nature 
and scope of its standards development activities. 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 name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: The Mortgage 
Industry Standards Maintenance Organization, Washington, DC. The nature 
and scope of MISMO's standards development activities are: to develop, 
promote, and maintain voluntary electronic commerce standards for 
electronic mortgages and for the electronic exchange of data within the 
commercial/multifamily and residential mortgage industries.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-27547 Filed 12-15-04; 8:45 am]
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