[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 58 (Monday, March 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15218-15219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-2925]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open SystemC Initiative

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 27, 2006, pursuant to 
section

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6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open SystemC Initiative 
(``OSCI'') 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, Bluespec. Inc., Waltham, MA; Canon Inc., Tokyo, Japan; 
Carbon Design Systems, Waltham, MA; Doulos Ltd., Ringwood, Hampshire, 
United Kingdom, GreenSocs Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom; Jeda 
Technologies, Inc., Los Altos, CA; and Tenison Technology EDA Ltd., 
Cambridge, United Kingdom have been added as parties to this venture. 
Also, NEC Electronics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Panasonic, Secaucus, NJ; 
and Verisity Design, Inc., Mountain View, CA have withdrawn as parties 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 OSCI intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 9, 2001, OSCI 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 3, 2002 (67 FR 350).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 9, 2005. 
A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) 
of the Act on June 3, 2005 (70 FR 32654).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-2925 Filed 3-24-06; 8:45 am]
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