[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 1 (Thursday, January 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 106-107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33309]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--CommerceNet Consortium
Notice is hereby given that, on November 15, 1995, pursuant to
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), CommerceNet Consortium,
(``Consortium'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with
the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing
certain 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 organizations have joined the
Consortium as Sponsor Members: ARPA, Arlington, VA; AT&T-Western
Technology Center, San Mateo, CA; Avery Dennison Worldwide Office
Products Group, Diamond Bar, CA; Bank of America, San Francisco, CA;
BBN, Cambridge, MA; Bull Worldwide Information Systems, Foster City,
CA; California Trade and Commerce Agency, OST, Pasadena, CA; Deloitte &
Touche, Boston, MA; Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA;
Harbinger Corporation, Atlanta, GA; Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA;
Loral Space and Range Systems, Sunnyvale, CA; Lockheed Martin Missiles
and Space, Palo Alto, CA; McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, MO; Novell,
Salt Lake City, UT; Premenos, Concord, CA; Sterling Commerce, Reston,
VA; 3Com, Santa Clara, CA; U.S. Postal Service, Washington, DC;
Visigenic Software, San Mateo, CA; Websoft, San Francisco, CA; and
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.
The following organizations have joined the Consortium as Associate
Members: Actra Business Systems,
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Sunnyvale, CA; Arthur Andersen L.L.P., San Jose, CA; Arthur D. Little,
Inc., San Francisco, CA; Center for Information Technology and
Management, Berkeley, CA; CrossRoute, Redwood Shores, CA; Cyberbusiness
Association Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN; Cyberpath, Orem, UT; Dacom
Corporation, Seoul, KOREA; Daimler Benz Research and Technology, Palo
Alto, CA; Defense Information Systems Agency, Reston, VA; Earthweb
Inc., New York, NY; Electronic Purchasing Information Corporation, New
York, NY; E-Stamp Corporation, Palo Alto, CA; Fablink, Colorado
Springs, CO; First Technology Federal Credit Union, Beaverton, OR;
France Telecom, San Francisco, CA; Freddie Mac, McLean, VA; GTE,
Needham, MA; GC Tech, New York, NY; Internet Business Group (IBG),
Bedford, NH; ICAST Communications Inc., Mountain View, CA; iCat
Corporation, Seattle, WA; Idea Center Inc., Las Vegas, NV; InReference
Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Institute of the Future, Menlo Park, CA; Internet
Profiles (IPRO), Palo Alto, CA; Lizard Communications Inc., Santa
Clara, CA; Logistics Advantage, Atlanta, GA; Mediakola, San Jose, CA;
Mercentec Inc., Lisle, IL; MFP Australia, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA;
Mitsubishu Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; MPACT Immedia Systems,
Livonia, MI; NACHA/Wespay, San Bruno, CA; nCipher Limited, Cambridge,
ENGLAND; NCR, Lincroft, NJ; Netgrocer, New York, NY; NIA, Oakland, CA;
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg,
MD; Nortel, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Northern Telecom (Nortel),
Research Triangle Park, NC; Novalink Technologies Inc., Fremont, CA;
NTT Data Communications, Palo Alto, CA; Partner, Salt Lake City, UT;
Paylinx Corporation, St. Louis, MO; Portland Software, Portland, OR;
Saqqara Systems, Sunnyvale, CA; Seoul Web Society, Seoul, KOREA; Signal
Internet Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA; Skornia Law Firm, San Jose, CA;
Software Forum, Palo Alto, CA; Supply Tech, Ann Arbor, MI; Terisa
Systems, Los Altos, CA; Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Santa Clara,
CA; U.S. Web, Santa Clara, CA; VeriSign, Mountain View, CA; WhoWhere?,
Mountain View, CA; WIZnet-Worldwide Internet Solutions Network Inc.,
Delray Beach, FL; WorldPoint Interactive Inc., Solana Beach, CA; and
Xcert Software, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA.
The following organizations have joined the Consortium as In-Kind
Members: Council of Better Business Bureaus, Arlington, VA; Gray, Cary,
Ware & Friedenrich, Palo Alto, CA; and Internet Business Group (IBG),
Bedford, NH.
The following Sponsor Members have canceled their memberships:
Allan-Bradley Company Inc., Albuquerque, NM; NYNEX Corporation,
Middleton, MA; Delphi Internet Services Corporation, Cambridge, MA;
InterNex Information Services, Menlo Park, CA; Avex Electronics Inc.,
Huntsville, AL; D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P., New York, NY; and First
Interstate Bancorp, Los Angeles, CA.
The following Associate Members have canceled their memberships:
Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Oakland, CA; Intercom-University
of Virginia, Computer Science Department, Charlottesville, VA;
Tradewinds Technologies Incorporate, Winston-Salem, NC; IEEE Computer
Society, Washington, DC; European Union Bank, Antigua, WEST INDIES; Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; Frontier Technologies
Corporation, Mequon, WI; Nihongo Yellow Pages Inc., San Jose, CA; Dun &
Bradstreet, Westport, CT; Arroyo Seco/Fore Play Golf, South Pasadena,
CA; CyberMark Inc., Washington, DC; Process Software Corporation,
Framingham, MA; Danish International Inc., Sunnyvale CA; Internet
Shopping Network, Menlo Park, CA; and Nanothinc, San Francisco, CA.
The following companies have changed their memberships from
Associate to In-Kind: I/Pro, Palo Alto, CA; and Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned
activities of the Consortium. Membership remains open and the
Consortium intends to file additional written notifications disclosing
all changes in membership.
On June 13, 1994, the Consortium, as `Smart Valley CommerceNet
Consortium Inc., filed its original notification pursuant to Sec. 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 August 31, 1994 (59 FR
45012).
The last notification was filed with the Department on August 17,
1995. A notice was published in the Federal Register on December 18,
1995 (60 FR 65068).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-33309 Filed 12-31-96; 8:45 am]
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