[Federal Register: February 18, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 32)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993-Microelectronics and Computers Technology 
Corporation (``MCC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 18, 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''), Microelectronics and Computer 
Technology Corporation (``MCC'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its 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, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, has become 
an MCC shareholder. The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; Hughes Research 
Lab (HRL, L.L.C.), Malibu, CA; and Hughes Electronics, El Segundo, CA 
have become associate members. Raytheon, Lexington, MA, recently 
acquired the Hughes Aircraft Company portion of GM Hughes and will 
become the MCC shareholder. SAIC, San Diego, CA, recently merged with 
Bellcore and is in the process of obtaining Bellcore's share and will 
become the MCC shareholder. Ceridian Corporation has transferred its 
MCC share to General Dynamics, Falls Church, VA. BBN Corporation, 
Pacific Sierra Research Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company and 
Nationsbank have declined to rejoin MCC. Schlumberger, San Jose, CA; 
and VLSI, San Jose, CA are being listed as 1998 project participants.
    Lucent, 3M, Nokia, Nortel, Intel, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard have 
joined the Loc Cost Portables Project. Raytheon and Schlumberger have 
joined the Infosleuth II Project. Honeywell has joined the Quest 
Project. Motorola and Nokia have joined the ProReal Visual Prototyping 
Project. Raytheon has joined the Object Infrastructure Project. VLSI 
Technology has joined the Server and Network Technology Project.
    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 intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all change in membership.
    On December 21, 1984, MCC 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 
January 17, 1985 (50 FR 2633).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17214).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-3919 Filed 2-17-99; 8:45 am]
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