[Federal Register: November 12, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 218)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--the ATM Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 15, 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''), the ATM 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, Oresis 
Communications, Inc., Portland, OR; Covad

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Communications, Santa Clara, CA; 2Wire, Inc., Milpitas, CA; Matra 
Marconi Space, Toulouse, FRANCE; and Jetstream Communications, Inc., 
Los Gatos, CA have been added as parties to this venture. The following 
member of the ATM Form have changed their names: ADC Kentrox to ADC 
Telecommunications, Inc., Portland, OR; Bellcore to Telcordia 
Technologies, Red Bank, NJ; Telecommunications Labs, Chunghwa Telecom 
Co., Ltd. To Chunghwa Telecom Labs, Yang-mei, Taoyuan, TAIWAN; Telia 
Network Services to Telia Research AB, Farsta, SWEDEN; and Lockheed 
Martin Telecommunications--Interactive Technology Center to Lockheed 
Martin Mission Systems, Sunnyvale, CA. Com21, Milpitas, CA; Compaq 
Computer, Norwood, MA; CSELT, Torino, ITALY; Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 
Singapore, SINGAPORE; Netro Corporation, San Jose, CA; RAD Data 
Communications, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL; Tektronix, Beaverton, OR; TTC, 
Germantown, MD; Diamond Lane Communications, Petaluma, CA; Audiocodes 
Ltd, Yehuda, ISRAEL; NDS Limited, Hampshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Sonoma 
Systems, Marina Del Rey, CA; Ficon Technology, Inc., Woodbridge, NJ; 
and RADCOM Ltd., Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL have downgraded to auditing members. 
SALIX Technologies, Inc., Rockville, MD; StratumOne, Santa Clara, CA; 
and Cimaron Communications Corp., Andover, MA have upgraded to 
principal members. Also, 3M, Austin, TX; AdvanceNet Systems 
Incorporated, Research Triangle Park, NC; AMCC, San Diego, CA; AMP-MA/
COM, Inc., Harrisburg, PA; Anixter Inc., Skokie, IL; Cornell 
University, Ithaca, NY; Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, ITALY; Fujikura 
Technology Amer, Santa Clara, CA; Intel, Santa Clara, CA; Interphase 
Corporation, Dallas, TX; IPC Information Systems, Fairfield, CT; Korea 
Telecom, Seoul, KOREA; Matsushita Electric Works Ltd, Minato-ku Tokyo, 
JAPAN; Microsoft corporation, Redmond, WA; NASA Lewis Research Ctr, 
Moffett Field, CA NIST, Gaithersburg, MD; Olivetti Research, Cambridge, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Optical Data Systems, Richardson, TX; Pairgain 
Technologies, Tustin, CA; Philips Research Labs, Aachen, GERMANY; 
STMicroelectronics, St. Genis Pouilly, FRANCE; Telco Systems, Norwood, 
MA; Telecom Italia, Rome, ITALY; Thomson-CSF, 92704 COLOMBES Cedex, 
FRANCE; Transwitch Corporation, Shelton, CT; TriQuint Semiconductor, 
Hillsboro, OR; Westell, Aurora, IL; Xerox, Palo Alto, CA; Hubbell 
Premise Wiring, Stonington, CT; ASCII Laboratories Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; 
Certicom Corp, San Mateo, CA; Raytheon, Marlborough, MA; MEGAXESS/
ATAnet, Inc., Germantown MD; and DGT,MOTC,Taiwan, Taipei, TAIWAN 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 The ATM Forum intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 19, 1993, The ATM 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 June 2, 1993 (58 FR 31415).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 15, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-29515 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]
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