[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 154 (Friday, August 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46335-46336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18182]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--the Information Technology Industry Council, 
Inc./the International Committee for Information Technology Standards

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 25, 2008, 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 Information Technology 
Industry Council, Inc./The InterNational Committee for Information 
Technology Industry Council, Inc. (``ITI/INCITS'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing additions or changes to its standards 
development activities. 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, ITI/INCITS has approved 100 new national standards in 
such areas as Biometrics, Fibre Channel, Office Processing, 
Identification Cards and OSI, initiated numerous other new standards 
development projects, and restructured several of its technical 
committees, task groups and management committees. More detail 
regarding these activities--including a catalog of current standards, 
descriptions of proposed standards under public review, and information 
concerning comment procedure and deadlines--may be found at http://www.incits.org.
    On September 21, 2004, ITI/INCITS 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

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6(b) of the Act on December 16, 2004 (69 FR 75346).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-18182 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]
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