[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 182 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54169-54170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-21741]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 20, 2008, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the

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National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 
4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. 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, National 
Instruments, Austin, TX has been added as a party to this venture. 
Also, SEPT.Europe, Munich, GERMANY; Reid-Ashman Mfg., St. George, UT; 
Q-Star Test, HR Erugge, BELGUIM; Rood Technology GmbH Co., Nordlingen, 
GERMANY; BitifEye Digital Solutions GmbH, Boeblingen, GERMANY; 
Manufacturing Technology Center Semiconductor Company, Nagaolcakyo 
City, Kyoto, JAPAN; and Zhou Feng (individual member) Hougang, 
SINGAPORE have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. 
intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On May 27, 2003, Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. 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 June 17, 2003 (68 FR 35913).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 4, 
2008. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on July 16, 2008 (73 FR 40883).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-21741 Filed 9-17-08; 8:45 am]
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