Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993VSI Alliance

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 19 (Friday, January 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4710-4711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2081]


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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 July 28, 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''), 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, Ambit Design 
Systems, Austin, TX; AMS Group International, Erfurt, Thuringia, 
GERMANY; Angeles Design Systems, San Jose, CA; ChipIdea 
Microelectronics, Ltd., Oeiras, PORTUGAL; DNP Corporation USA, Santa 
Clara, CA; Frontier Design, Inc., Leuven, BELGIUM; Fuji Electric Co., 
Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN; IMS Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc., 
Beaverton,

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OR; Intel, Chandler, AZ; LEDA S.A., Meylan, FRANCE; Scientific and 
Engineering Software, Inc., Austin, TX; Seagate Technology, Scotts 
Valley, CA; SmartSand, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Synthesis Corporation, 
Osaka, JAPAN; Taveren Technology, Inc., Austin, TX; United 
Microelectronics Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Virtual Silicon 
Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; and Wipro Ltd., Global Products, Santa 
Clara, CA have been added as parties to this venture. Also, Credence 
Systems Corporation, Fremont, CA; Diagonal Systems, Mountain View, CA; 
Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd., Ichon, Kyoungki-Do, KOREA; 
OMI Management Office, Brussels, BELGIUM; Sebring Systems, Los Gatos, 
CA; Tseng Labs, Inc., Newton, PA; and Victor Company of Japan, 
Yokohama, Kanagawa, JAPAN 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 May 6, 1998. 
A notice has not yet been published.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-2081 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
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