98-20398. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993; VSI Alliance  

  • [Federal Register Volume 63, Number 146 (Thursday, July 30, 1998)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 40742]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 98-20398]
    
    
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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 February 27, 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, Advanced Bytes & 
    Rights, Ltd., London, UNITED KINGDOM; ASIC Alliance Corporation, 
    Burlington, MA; BOPS, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC; Canadian Microelectronics 
    Corporation, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA; Chip & Chip, Inc., Santa Clara, 
    CA; ChipLogic, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Cimaron Communications, Lawrence, 
    MA; Credence Systems Corporation, Fremont, CA; Denso Corporation, 
    Nukata-gun, Aichi Prefecture, JAPAN; Design & Reuse, Grenoble, FRANCE; 
    Eigen Tek, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ; Electronic Tools Company, Sonoma, CA; 
    Fraunhofer Institute IMS, Dresden, GERMANY; Macronix International Co., 
    Ltd. Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Microelectronics Research Institute 
    PROGRESS, Moscow, RUSSIA; Pivotal Technologies, Pasadena, CA; Power X 
    Limited, Sale, Cheshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Real 3D, Orlando, FL; SpaSE 
    BV, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS; Syntest Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, 
    CA; Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, CANADA; and 
    Virage Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA have been added as parties to 
    this venture. Also, Compass Design Automation, San Jose, CA; GEC 
    Plessey, Plymouth, Devon, UNITED KINGDOM; and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., 
    San Jose, 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 November 19, 
    1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
    Section 6(b) of the Act on April 14, 1998 (63 FR 18226).
    Constance K. Robinson,
    Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
    [FR Doc. 98-20398 Filed 7-29-98; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
07/30/1998
Department:
Antitrust Division
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
98-20398
Pages:
40742-40742 (1 pages)
PDF File:
98-20398.pdf