[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27279-27280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-4336]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Institute of Electrical and Electronics 
Engineers

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 19, 2006, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Institute of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineers (``IEEE'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing additions or changes to its standards 
developmental activities. The notifications were filed for the purpose 
of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages

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under specified circumstances. Specifically, 8 new standard have been 
initiated and 9 existing standards are being revised. More detail 
regarding these changes can be found at http://standards.ieee.org/standardswire/sba/03-16-06.html.
    On September 17, 2004, IEEE 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 November 3, 2004 (69 FR 64105).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 16, 
2005. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on January 18, 2006 (71 FR 2960).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-4336 Filed 5-9-06; 8:45 am]
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