[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8823-8824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3436]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--VSI Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 19, 2005, 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 VSI Alliance has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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, Agere Systems, 
Inc., Allentown, PA; ARC International PLC, Nashua, NH; CNRS-Centre 
National De Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France; ControlNet, Inc., 
Campbell, CA; Design and Reuse, Grenoble, France; eSilicon Corp., 
Sunnyvale, CA; Fraunhofer IPMS, Dresden, Germany; HCL Technologies 
Indian Pvt., Ltd., Chennai, India; ITRI-Industrial Technology Research 
Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; 
Macronix International Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan; M-Techno 
Structure IT-Solution GMBH, Vienna, Austria; Morpho Technologies, 
Irvine, CA; NewLogic Technologies AG, Lustenau, Austria; Renesas 
Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Sanyo LSI Technology, India Pvt. 
Ltd., Bangalore, India; SilTerra Malaysia Sdu. Bhd., Sunnyvale, CA; 
Synchronicity, Inc., Marlboro, MA; TaraCom Integrated Products, 
Sunnyvale, CA; Tower Semiconductor, Ltd., Migdal Haemek, Israel; VCX, 
Limited, Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom; WIS Technologies, San 
Jose, CA; and Xignal Technologies, AG Unterhaching, Germany have 
withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 VSI Alliance intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).

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    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on December 3, 2004 (69 FR 70284).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-3436 Filed 2-22-05; 8:45 am]
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