[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 32 (Thursday, February 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 8125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3919]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993-Microelectronics and Computers Technology
Corporation (``MCC'')
Notice is hereby given that, on March 18, 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''), Microelectronics and Computer
Technology Corporation (``MCC'') has filed written notifications
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing changes in its 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, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, has become
an MCC shareholder. The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; Hughes Research
Lab (HRL, L.L.C.), Malibu, CA; and Hughes Electronics, El Segundo, CA
have become associate members. Raytheon, Lexington, MA, recently
acquired the Hughes Aircraft Company portion of GM Hughes and will
become the MCC shareholder. SAIC, San Diego, CA, recently merged with
Bellcore and is in the process of obtaining Bellcore's share and will
become the MCC shareholder. Ceridian Corporation has transferred its
MCC share to General Dynamics, Falls Church, VA. BBN Corporation,
Pacific Sierra Research Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company and
Nationsbank have declined to rejoin MCC. Schlumberger, San Jose, CA;
and VLSI, San Jose, CA are being listed as 1998 project participants.
Lucent, 3M, Nokia, Nortel, Intel, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard have
joined the Loc Cost Portables Project. Raytheon and Schlumberger have
joined the Infosleuth II Project. Honeywell has joined the Quest
Project. Motorola and Nokia have joined the ProReal Visual Prototyping
Project. Raytheon has joined the Object Infrastructure Project. VLSI
Technology has joined the Server and Network Technology Project.
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 intends to file additional written
notification disclosing all change in membership.
On December 21, 1984, MCC 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
January 17, 1985 (50 FR 2633).
The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8,
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17214).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-3919 Filed 2-17-99; 8:45 am]
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