[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 18 (Monday, January 28, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 4918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 08-344]


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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 December 11, 2007, 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 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, CISC Semiconductor Design + Consulting GmbH, Klagenfurt, 
AUSTRIA; and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 
SWITZERLAND have been added as parties to this venture. Also, Celoxica, 
Ltd., Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM; Denali Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; 
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Herzalia, ISRAEL; SpiraTech Ltd., 
Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM; and Tenison Technology EDA Ltd., Cambridge, 
UNITED KINGDOM have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 notifications 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 June 21, 
2007. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on September 11, 2007 (72 FR 51839).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 08-344 Filed 1-25-08; 8:45 am]
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