[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 75 (Tuesday, April 21, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 18250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-8970]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Distributed Sensor Technologies

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 9, 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''), Distributed Sensor Technologies 
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: Distributed Sensor Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, 
CA; Redfern Integrated Optics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Optiphase, Inc., 
Van Nuys, CA; and University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL. The 
general area of Distributed Sensor Technologies' planned activity is to 
develop and integrate technologies that can be used to measure civil 
structure condition monitoring. The method being developed is utilizing 
distributed fiber sensing technology.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-8970 Filed 4-20-09; 8:45 am]
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