[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--Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 20, 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''), Enterprise Computer Telephony 
Forum 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, Aspect Telecommunications, San Jose, CA; Compaq Computer 
Corporation, Houston, TX; Centigram Communications, San Jose, CA; 
Lernout & Hauspie, Ieper, BELGIUM; Picazo Communications, Palo Alto, 
CA; Alcatel Data Networks, Paris, FRANCE; Artesyn Communications 
Products, Madison, WI; Blue Wave Systems, Leicestershire, UNITED 
KINGDOM; CallWare Technologies, Sandy, UT; CAPI Association, Berlin, 
GERMANY; Daimler-Benz Aerospace, Stuttgart, GERMANY; Datakinetics Ltd., 
Hants, UNITED KINGDOM; ETRI, Terjon, KOREA; Frequentis 
Nachrichtentecknik, Vienna, AUSTRIA; GTE Communications Systems, 
Taunton, MA; Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, TAIWAN; 
Intervoice, Dallas, TX; Nokia Telecommunications, Helsinki, FINLAND; 
Nuera Communications, San Diego, CA; Racal Recorders, Hampshire, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Spectrum Signal Processing, Burnaby, BC, CANADA; Syntellect, 
Phoenix, AZ; and Telesoft Design, Dorest, UNITED KINGDOM have been 
added as parties to this venture. Also, Brite Voice Systems, Wichita, 
KS; COM2001 Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA; Tandem Computers, 
Austin, TX; Dictaphone, Stratford, CT; and Heurikon Corporation, 
Madison, WI 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 Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On February 20, 1996, Enterprise Computer Telephony 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 May 13, 1996 (61 FR 22074).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 25, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on June 18, 1998 (63 FR 33418).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-2100 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
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