[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 115 (Thursday, June 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 34645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-5414]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 31, 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''), Open DeviceNet Vendor 
Association, Inc. (``ODVA'') 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, ITT Industries, Inc., White Plains, NY; 
Northwire, Inc., Osceola, WI; Moog, Inc., East Aurora, NY; RFID, Inc., 
Aurora, CO; AGM Electronics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; N-Tron Corporation, 
Mobile, AL; Seiko Epson, Nagano-kon, Japan; ARCX, Inc., Toronto, 
Ontario, Canada; Bird Electronic Corporation, Solon, OH; EIM Controls, 
Inc., Missouri City, TX; ifak systems GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany; 
Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI; ProSoft Technology, 
Bakersfield, CA; Baldor Electric, Fort Smith, AR; AquaSensors, LLC, 
Menomonee Falls, WI; and Toyogiken Co., Ltd., Nagano, Japan have been 
added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Danaher Motion/Kollmorgen, Radford, VA; DVT Corporation, 
Duluth, GA; Flexible Machine Controls, Wendywood, South Africa; 
Intelligent Motion Systems, Marlborough, CT; MKS Instruments, CIT 
Group, Austin, TX; NSK Precision Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan; Scientific 
Technologies, Inc., Freemont, CA; Shanghai Aton Electric Co., Ltd., 
Shanghai, People's Republic of China; Wind River Systems, Inc., 
Alameda, CA; and Power-IO, Naperville, IL have withdrawn as parties to 
this venture. Also, Beckhoff Industrie Elektronik has changed its name 
to Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Nurnberg, Germany.
    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 ODVA intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On June 21, 1995, ODVA 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 February 
15, 1996 (61 FR 6039).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 10, 
2006. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 7, 2006 (71 FR 11453).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-5414 Filed 6-14-06; 8:45 am]
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