[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 182 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 54170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-21742]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993 Wireless Industrial Technology Konsortium Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August August 8, 2008, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 5 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Wireless Industrial 
Technology Konsortium Inc. (``WITK'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the venture 
and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications 
were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting 
the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
to the venture are: Airsprite Technologies, Inc., Marlborough, MA; 
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX; Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH, 
Mannheim, GERMANY; Emerson Process Management LLLP, Eden Prairie, MN; 
Endress + Hauser Process Solutions AG, Reinach, SWITZERLAND; Software 
Technologies Group, Westchester, IL; Siemens AG, Karisruhe, GERMANY; 
and ABE Automation Products GmbH, Alzenau, GERMANY.
    The general areas of WITK's planned activity are to develop, 
implement, promote and distribute on a nonprofit basis one or more 
software communication stacks and supporting products, the first of 
which will be the WirelessHART Specification (HART 7) published by the 
HART Communication Foundation, and to encourage the use of such 
communications stacks and products on a standardized basis within, for 
example, the process control and factory automation communities 
worldwide, provided, however, WITK shall not carry on any activity not 
permitted to be carried on by a corporation that is exempt from federal 
income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code as an organization 
described in Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-21742 Filed 9-17-08; 8:45 am]
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