[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 73 (Friday, April 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20003-20004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-8575]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Connected Media Experience, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 12, 2010, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Connected Media Experience, Inc. 
(``CMX'') 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: MXP4, Paris, FRANCE; Universal Music Group, Inc., 
Santa Monica, CA; Omediae, LLC aka Pypeline, Kapaa, HI; Opendisc, 
Paris, FRANCE; George White (individual), New Rochelle, NY; and Greg 
Kellogg (individual), San Rafael, CA. The general area of CMX's planned 
activity is to develop and to promote the development and adoption of 
open, accessible standards and specifications relating to the 
enhancement of end user digital media experiences (collectively, ``the 
Specifications''), and to undertake such other activities as may from 
time to time be appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the 
goals set forth above, including without limitation, licensing, 
maintaining and supporting the Specifications, promoting the 
Specifications worldwide, providing for testing and conformity 
assessment of implementations in order to ensure compliance with 
Specifications, creating and owning distinctive trademarks, and if 
advisable, operating a branding program to create high customer 
awareness of, demand for, and

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confidence in products designed in compliance with Specifications.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-8575 Filed 4-15-10; 8:45 am]
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