98-912. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993NASD Project

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2265-2266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-912]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--NASD Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 19, 1997, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the National Storage 
Industry Consortium (``NSIC'') has filed written notifications on 
behalf of a cooperative research agreement between NSIC and 
participants known as the

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Network Attached Storage Devices (``NASD'') Project simultaneously with 
the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) 
the identities of the parties 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 are Carnegie Mellon 
University, Pittsburgh, PA; Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA; 
International Business Machines Corporation, San Jose, CA; National 
Storage Industry Consortium, San Diego, CA; Quantum Corporation, 
Shrewsbury, MA; Seagate Technology Incorporated, Bloomington, MN; and 
Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO.
    The area of planned activity for the NASD cooperative Research 
Agreement is research in the area of network attached storage device 
technology.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-912 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]
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