80 FR 70836 - Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-TeleManagement Forum

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 220 (November 16, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 220 (Monday, November 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70836-70837]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29058]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--TeleManagement Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 8, 2015, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), TeleManagement Forum (``The 
Forum'') filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 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 parties have been added as members to this venture: Applied 
BSS, Ronneby, SWEDEN; Continental Automated Buildings Association, 
Ottawa, CANADA; Chinese Society For Urban Studies National Smart City 
Joint Lab, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; ZhongXing (Yinchuan) 
Intellectual Industry Co. Ltd., Jinfeng District, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA; GLOBEOSS, Shah Alam, MALAYSIA; Kavitha Shreedhar Ltd., Mount 
Pleasant, AUSTRALIA; Sinefa, Bulleen, AUSTRALIA; Grameenphone Ltd., 
Baridhara, BANGLADESH; Telenor Pakistan, Islamabad, PAKISTAN; Italtel 
S.p.A, Settimo Milane, ITALY; OpenLimits Business Solutions Lda, 
Coimbra, PORTUGAL; Orange Caraibe, Baie-Mahault, GUADELOUPE; Ultrafast 
Fibre Limited, Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND; Singer TC GmbH, Schwedeneck, 
GERMANY; Resolvetel Ltd., Henley-on-Thames, UNITED KINGDOM; Sutherland 
Labs, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Retixa, Warsaw, POLAND; Polaris 
Consulting & Services Ltd., Piscataway, NJ; State Information 
Technology Agency (SITA), Erasmuskloof, SOUTH AFRICA; EXFO Inc., 
Chelmsford, MA; CommTel Network Solutions Pty Ltd., Keilor Park, 
AUSTRALIA; Jetsynthesys, Pune, INDIA; My Republic, Singapore, 
SINGAPORE; ISPIN AG, Bassersdorf, SWITZERLAND; Apttus Corporation, San 
Mateo, CA; Parkyeri, [Idot]stanbul, TURKEY; Blackbridge Associates, 
Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; IPvideosys, Sunnyvale, CA; Windstream 
Communications, Little Rock, AR; T&BS SAS, Paris, FRANCE; Mind C.T.I. 
Ltd., Yoqneam Ilit, ISRAEL; Vision Consulting Turkey, [Idot]stanbul, 
TURKEY; Qualycloud, Paris, FRANCE; Etihad Atheeb Telecom Company, 
Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA; Nethys SA--Betv/VOO, Li[egrave]ge, BELGIUM; 
Datalynx Holding AG, Basel, SWITZERLAND; Tacira Technologies, 
S[atilde]o Paulo, BRAZIL; and Master Merchant Systems, Dartmouth, 
CANADA.
    Also, the following members have changed their names: TNBS.FR to 
T&BS SAS, Paris, FRANCE; Albanian Mobile Communications Sh. A. to 
Telekom Albania Sh.A., Laprake, ALBANIA; JDSU to Viavi Solutions, 
Muehleweg, GERMANY; Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P to Zain 
Group, Kuwait City, KUWAIT; Voo to Nethys SA--Betv/VOO, Li[egrave]ge, 
BELGIUM; and Quindell Telecoms to SMI Technologies, Portsmouth, UNITED 
KINGDOM.
    In addition, the following parties have withdrawn as parties to 
this venture: 4STARS Ltd., Zagreb, CROATIA; Affinegy, Inc., Austin, TX; 
AIST Limited, Stanmore, UNITED KINGDOM; Alvenie Systems Ltd., Purley, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Aria Systems Ltd., Reading, UNITED KINGDOM; ARSAT, 
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; Beijing C-platform Digital Technology Co., 
Ltd., Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; BNM Incorporated, 
Indialantic, FL; Boss Portal, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND; CableVision, SA, 
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; CalIT Consulting, Hurth, GERMANY; Cellex 
Networks Systems (2007) Ltd., Bne Beraq, ISRAEL; CIMI Corporation, 
Voorhees, NJ; CircuitVision, Tampa, FL; Clarebourne Consultancy Ltd., 
Farnham, UNITED KINGDOM; Conexion S.A., Asuncion, PARAGUAY; CSN 
Technology Pty Ltd., Eveleigh, AUSTRALIA; Cycle30, Seattle, WA; DAM 
Solutions, Mexico, MEXICO; DIRECTV, Inc., El Segundo, CA; EA 
Principals, Inc., Alexandria, VA; Ebizu Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, 
MALAYSIA;

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Eirtech Communications, Cork, IRELAND; Enterprise Designer Institute, 
Daylesford, AUSTRALIA; e-Stratega S.R.L., Olivos, ARGENTINA; everis 
Chile S.A., Comuna De La Condes, CHILE; Frederick Serr Consulting, 
Concord, MA; Graphene, Palm Coast, FL; GVT, Curitiba, BRAZIL; Inidat 
Consulting, Capital Federal, ARGENTINA; Inline Telecom Solutions, 
Moscow, RUSSIA; Inswitch Solutions, Miami, FL; Integrated 
Architectures, LLC, Medway, MA; Integrated Research INC, Denver, CO; 
Intelligent Services Solutions Telecom, Giza, EGYPT; Interfacing 
Technologies Corp., Montreal, CANADA; iToolsOnline Ltd., Mt Albert, NEW 
ZEALAND; JSMN Inc., Cobh, IRELAND; Metabula Ltd., Cambridge, UNITED 
KINGDOM; MHM & Partner AG, Rotkreuz, SWITZERLAND; Millicom 
International Cellular S.A., Leudelange, LUXEMBOURG; NTG Clarity 
Networks Inc., Markham, CANADA; NVision group, Moscow, RUSSIA; OperTune 
Ltd., Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM; Optulink Inc., Naperville, IL; Piran 
Partners LLP, Windsor, UNITED KINGDOM; Polish Telephones Foundation, 
Warszawa, POLAND; Quantellia, Denver, CO; RampRate, Santa Monica, CA; 
Saugatuck Technology, Westport, CT; Semanticore Systems, Roodepoort, 
SOUTH AFRICA; Sequoia Telecom Associates, San Rafael, CA; SL Software 
Consult Hungary Ltd., P[eacute]cs, HUNGARY; Sprint, Overland Park, KS; 
Stanford McLeod & Associates Pty Ltd., Point Cook, AUSTRALIA; Stargue, 
Julianadorp, THE NETHERLANDS; tekten sp. z o.o., Warsaw, POLAND; 
TelecomAdvisors International S.A., Panama City, PANAMA; Telecom 
Argentina, S.A., Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; Telecom Personal Argentina, 
Ciudad Aut[oacute]noma de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; Tieto, B[uuml]hl, 
GERMANY; UBIqube Solutions, Grenoble, FRANCE; UNE EPM 
Telecomunicaciones S.A, S100 Loma Los Balsos, COLOMBIA; Unitel Group, 
Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA; Urbatech Group FZE, Casablanca, MOROCCO; 
VanceInfo Technologies Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; 
Velocent Systems, Inc., Naperville, IL; WANA CORPORATE, Casablanca, 
MOROCCO; Wataniya Palestine, Sateh Marhaba, Al Bireh, PALESTINE; 
Winkler Consulting, Rohr, GERMANY; Xenodon Consulting und Marketing 
GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY; Zimory, Berlin, GERMANY; Applied Network 
Solutions, Inc., Columbia, MD; Bobbil, Cobh, IRELAND; Broadband Infraco 
(SOC) Ltd., Woodmead, SOUTH AFRICA; Charter Communications, St. Louis, 
MO; Diplomatic Telecommunications Program Office (DTS-PO), Fairfax, VA; 
Forther Ltda, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL; IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., 
Mansfield, MA; Iprotel Limited, Reading, UNITED KINGDOM; Kaiser 
Permanente, Pleasanton, CA; Netformx, Inc., San Jose, CA; NISCERT 
Corporation, Toronto, CANADA; Northpower Fibre, Whangarei, NEW ZEALAND; 
one2tribe Sp. z o.o., Michalowice, POLAND; OPT Nouvelle 
Cal[eacute]donie, Noumea, NEW CALEDONIA; POWERACT Consulting, 
Casablanca, MOROCCO; PT Indosat Tbk, Jakarta Pusat, INDONESIA; 
SpiderCloud Wireless, San Jose, CA; Tarantula, Slough, UNITED KINGDOM; 
Tata Communications Ltd., Mumbai, INDIA; Tom Sawyer Software, Berkley, 
CA; Vertek Corporation, Colchester, VT; and WebAction, Palo Alto, CA.
    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 The Forum intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 21, 1988, the Forum 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 December 8, 1988 (53 FR 49615).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 8, 
2015. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on July 30, 2015 (80 FR 45549).

Patricia A. Brink
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
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