[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 26045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10515]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Accellera Systems Initiative

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 11, 2012, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Accellera Systems Initiative 
(``Accellera'') 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, Aldec, Inc., Henderson, NV; AMD, Sunnyvale, CA; 
Australian Semiconductor Technology Company, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA; 
Boeing, El Segundo, CA; Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA; Cypress 
Semiconductor, San Jose, CA; Duolog, Dublin, IRELAND; Freescale 
Semiconductor, Austin, TX; IBM, Hopewell Junction, NY; Jasper Design 
Automation, Mountain View, CA; Magillem Design Services, Paris, FRANCE; 
Oracle Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Paradigm Works, Inc., Andover, MA; 
Renesas Mobile, Salo, FINLAND; Semifore, Inc., Mountain View, CA; 
SpringSoft, San Jose, CA; Vayavya Labs, Belguam, INDIA; Verilab, 
Austin, TX; and Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA, have been added 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 Accellera intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 9, 2001, Accellera 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 January 3, 2002 (67 FR 350).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 6, 
2012. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 8, 2012 (77 FR 14045).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-10515 Filed 5-1-12; 8:45 am]
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