[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 160 (Thursday, August 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55234-55235]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-19691]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Telemanagement Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 18, 2016, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), TeleManagement Forum (``The 
Forum'') 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, the 
following parties have been added as members to this venture: OgilvyOne 
Worldwide S.A. c/o FIWARE, Madrid, SPAIN; John P. Reilly Sole Trader, 
Plano, TX; The Open Group, San Francisco, CA; IoT connctd GmbH, Berlin, 
GERMANY; TWINT AG, Bern, SWITZERLAND; Blekinge Institute of Technology, 
Karlskrona, SWEDEN; Eclipse Foundation, Ottawa, CANADA; FTTH Council 
Asia-Pacific, Singapore, SINGAPORE; Philippe Imoucha, Aix-en-Provence, 
FRANCE; Safe Data Matters, Cork, IRELAND; Bristol University, Bristol, 
UNITED KINGDOM; The Cure Parkinsons Trust, London, UNITED KINGDOM; 
RoboFold Ltd., London, UNITED KINGDOM; Dunasys, Nanterre, FRANCE; 
Clarebourne Consultancy Ltd., Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM; Fluxicon, 
Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS; EASIS CONSULTING, Paris, FRANCE; Xynexis 
International, Jakarta, INDONESIA; Telecom Personal (Paraguay), 
Asuncion, PARAGUAY; MD Healthcare Consultants Ltd., Salford, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Icertis, Inc., Bellevue, WA; Polkomtel S.A. (PLUS), Warsaw, 
POLAND; ZDSL.com, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; Lotus Innovations, LLC, 
Irvine, CA; Qiy Foundation, Boxtel, NETHERLANDS; Docomo Pacific, 
Tamuning, GUAM; SP Telecommunications Pte Ltd., Singapore, SINGAPORE; 
HHB SOLUTIONS LIMITED, Hong Kong, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Cellos 
Software Limited, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; US Cellular Corporation, 
Chicago, IL; CheckNET GmbH, Munich, GERMANY; Millicom Tigo Paraguay, 
Asuncion, PARAGUAY; Bring Labs, Lisbon, PORTUGAL; RMC Consulting COM 
TR, Istanbul, TURKEY; Vodafone Netherlands, Maastricht, NETHERLANDS; 
Panamax Inc., New York, NY; Gaia Smart Cities Solutions Pvt Ltd., 
Mumbai, INDIA; GCI, Anchorage, AK; EY Global Services Limited, London, 
UNITED KINGDOM; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP--Edmonton, Toronto, CANADA; 
and Pole Star, London, UNITED KINGDOM.
    Also, the following members have changed their names: Mint Systems 
Limited to BridgeWorx Ltd., Brighton, UNITED KINGDOM; Ascom Deutschland 
GmbH, Systems & Solutions to Axino Solutions Group, Aachen, GERMANY; 
TeliaSonera AB to Telia Company, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Mobistar to Orange 
Belgium NV/SA, Brussels, BELGIUM; Ace Group Holdings, Inc., to CHUBB, 
New York, NY; FIWARE to OgilvyOne Worldwide S.A. c/o FIWARE, Madrid, 
SPAIN; Robots to RoboFold Ltd., London, UNITED KINGDOM; and Bring 
Global to Bring Labs, Lisbon, PORTUGAL.
    In addition, the following parties have withdrawn as parties to 
this venture: Alcatel-Lucent, Velizy, FRANCE; Banan IT FZ-LLC, Dubai, 
UAE; bit2win, Rome, ITALY; Broadpeak, Rennes, FRANCE; Cardinality, 
London, UNITED KINGDOM; Croatian Telecom-HT, Zagreb, CROATIA; cVidya 
Networks Ltd., Herzliya, ISRAEL; DayBlink Consulting, LLC, Vienna, VA; 
drop D, Quito, ECUADOR; Eir, Dublin, IRELAND; Etisalat UAE, Abu Dhabi, 
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; Fiberblaze, New York, NY; Fornax ICT Kft., 
Budapest, HUNGARY; Intersec Group, Paris, FRANCE; Magyar Telekom, 
Budapest, HUNGARY; MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd (MBNS-
Astro), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; MTN Ghana, Accra, GHANA; OJSC 
``VimpelCom,'' Moscow, RUSSIA; Samsung Electronics Co., Suwon, SOUTH 
KOREA; Scarlet S.A, Evere, BELGIUM; Servicios Axtel, SAB, San Pedro 
Garza Garcia, MEXICO; SML Technologies, Jakarta, INDONESIA; 
SourceConnect, Chicago, IL; Thomson Video Networks, Cesson-
S[eacute]vign[eacute], FRANCE; T-Mobile Austria GmbH, Vienna, AUSTRIA; 
T-Mobile Nederland BV, The Hague, NETHERLANDS; T-Slovak Telekom, a.s., 
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA; TTNet A.S., Istanbul, TURKEY; Turkcell Iletisim 
Hiz A.S., Istanbul, TURKEY; UNITEL S.A., Luanda, ANGOLA; Virtual 
Clarity Ltd., London, UNITED KINGDOM; Wisdom

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Networks Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN; and Xura, Ra'anana, ISRAEL.
    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 the Forum intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 21, 1988, the Forum 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 December 8, 1988 (53 FR 49615).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 25, 
2016. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on June 9, 2016 (81 FR 37213).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-19691 Filed 8-17-16; 8:45 am]
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