[Federal Register: January 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 19)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--The Open Group, L.L.C.

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 28, 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''), The Open Group, L.L.C. 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, Association 
for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), Reading, PA; Distributed 
Systems Technology Centre (DSTC Pty Ltd.), St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA; 
ESIGETEL, Avon, FRANCE; France Telecom, Paris, FRANCE; Moscow State 
Engineering Physics Institute (MEPHI), Moscow, RUSSIA; NORTEL Northern 
Telecom, Ltd., Alpharetta, CA; Sandia National Laboratories, 
Albuquerque, NM; Saudi Distributed Systems Agency, Makkah, SAUDI 
ARABIA; SCSSI (Service Central de la Securite et des Systems 
d'Information), Moulineaux, FRANCE; Security Dynamics Technologies, 
Inc. including RSA Securities, Redwood City, CA; Sequel Technology 
Corporation, Bellevue, WA; and The Dairy Farm Group, Causeway Bay, HONG 
KONG have been added 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 The Open Group, L.L.C. intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On April 21, 1997, The Open Group, L.L.C. 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 June 13, 1997 (62 FR 32371).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 16, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on October 6, 1997 (62 FR 52153).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-2089 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
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