[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 219 (Friday, November 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 63496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30423]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--VSI Alliance
Notice is hereby given that, on May 6, 1998, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), VSI Alliance has filed written
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 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, Chrysalis Symbolic
Design, Inc., North Billerica, MA; Gatefield Corp. (formerly Zycad),
Fremont, CA; Global UniChip Corp., Hsinchu Science Park, TAIWAN; Henry
Davis Consulting, Inc., Soquel, CA; Qualis Design Corp., Lake Oswego,
OR; RocketChips, Inc., Ames, IA; Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow,
SCOTLAND; Silicon Automation Systems, Bangalorc, Karnataka, INDIA;
Simutech, Vancouver, WA; and Xentec, Inc., Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
have been added as parties to this venture. Also, Caseium, Inc., Santa
Clara, CA; Compass Design Automation, San Jose, CA; GEC Plessey
Semiconductor, Plymouth, Devon, UNITED KINGDOM; Nippon Telegraph &
Telephone, Kanagawa, JAPAN; Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN;
Precedence, Inc., Campbell, CA; Tower Semiconductor, San Jose, CA;
ViewLogic, Rockville, MD; and Zycad, Fremont, CA have been dropped 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 VSI Alliance intends to file
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
On November 27, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
The last notification was filed with the Department on February 27,
1998. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
Section 6(b) of the Act on July 30, 1998 (63 FR 40742).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-30423 Filed 11-12-98; 8:45 am]
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