[Federal Register: December 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 231)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--International Middleware Association (Formerly 
Message Oriented Middleware Association, Inc.)

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 22, 1999, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), International Middleware 
Association (formerly Message Oriented Middleware Association, Inc. 
(MOMA) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing a change in its 
name and 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, on February 24, 1999, the Message Oriented 
Middleware Association (MOMA) officially changed its name to the 
International Middleware Association (IMWA). Also, BMC Software, San 
Jose, CA; Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, VA; EDS, Herndon, VA; 
Freddie Mac, McLean, VA; HIE, Columbus, OH; MessageQuest, Tampa, FL; 
NetSys N.A., Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ; Object Management Group (OMG), 
Framingham, MA; Paine Webber, Weehawken, NJ; Pillsbury Company, 
Minneapolis, MN; and SAGA Software, Inc., Reston, VA have been added as

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parties to this venture. Also, AT&T Piscataway, NJ; Boole & Babbage 
Inc., San Jose, CA; Candle Corp., Santa Monica, CA; MQ Tech. Inc., 
Glendale, CA; HUBLink, Columbus, OH; Software AG Americas, Reston, VA; 
and Technology Investments, Tampa, FL 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 International Middleware Association 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On May 15, 1995, International Middleware Association 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 November 13, 1995 (60 FR 57022).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 5, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-31253 Filed 12-1-99; 8:45 am]
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