[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 250 (Wednesday, December 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 71954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34647]
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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 May 19, 1998, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), CommerceNet Consortium 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, Lucent
Technologies, Middletown, NJ has joined the Consortium as a Corporate
Sponsor member. eCharge Corporation, Seattle, WA; Calico Technologies,
San Jose, CA; Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA; and
nCipher, Inc., Andover, MA have joined the Consortium as Core members
to this venture. Also, Maryland Procurement Office, Fort George, MD;
National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD; Surety Technologies, Chatham,
NJ; Terisa Systems, Los Altos, CA; Sift, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Time
Warner, New York, NY; Saqqara Systems, Sunnyvale, CA; Japan Research
Institute, Tokyo, JAPAN; Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd. (KDD), Tokyo,
JAPAN; Fujitsu Limited-Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN; Cybercash, Vienna, VA;
American Express, New York, NY; Fujitsu Limited-USA, Santa Clara, CA;
Pitney Bowes, Shelton, CT; NTT Data Communications-Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN;
Intranet Partners, Santa Clara, CA; US Postal Service, Washington, DC;
Marshall Industries, San Diego, CA; Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores,
CA; Citibank, New York, NY; Ameritech, Chicago, IL; Bank of America,
San Francisco, CA; Union Bank, Monterey Park, CA; and NTT Data
Communications-USA, Palo Alto, 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 CommerceNet Consortium intends to
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in
membership.
On June 13, 1994, CommerceNet Consortium 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 August 31, 1994 (59 FR 45012).
The last notification was filed with the Department on April 20,
1998. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-34647 Filed 12-25-98; 8:45 am]
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