[Federal Register: December 3, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 232)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--VSI Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 8, 2004, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), VSI Alliance 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, Microelectronics 
Research Institute ``PROGRESS'', Moscow, RUSSIA; and David Gardner 
(individual member), Round Rock, TX have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, Alcatel, Edegem, BELGIUM; Bob Altizer (individual member), 
Phoenix, AZ; Guy Bois (individual member), Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; 
Annette Bunker (individual member), Salt Lake City, UT; Ramesh Chandra 
(individual member), San Diego, CA; Edoardo Charbon (individual 
member), Berkeley, CA; Lee Dilley (individual member), Doylestown, PA; 
Dolphin Technology, San Jose, CA; GDA Technology, Karnatake, INDIA; Qun 
Ge (individual member), Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; David 
Greenstein (individual member), Cupertino, CA; Carolyn Hayden, Ottawa, 
Ontario, CANADA; HD Labs, Yokohama, JAPAN; Robert Helt (individual 
member), Moraga, CA; IPTC Corporation, Yokohama, JAPAN; Gerald Keeler 
(individual member), San Francisco, CA; Alfred Kwok (individual 
member), San Jose, CA; Kun-Bin Lee (individual member), Hsinchu, 
TAIWAN; Samy Makar (individual member), Fremont, CA; Microelectronics 
Center of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
CHINA; Seijiro Moriyama (individual member), Kohoku-ku, JAPAN; Miodrag 
Potkonjak (individual member), Los Angeles, CA; Hardy Pottinger 
(individual member), Rolla, MO; Gang Qu (individual member), College 
Park, MD; Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (individual member), 
Berkeley, CA; Richard Stolzman (individual member), Campbell, CA; 
Patrick Sullivan (individual member), Palo Alto, CA; James Tobias 
(individual member), San Jose, CA; Kumar Venkatramani (individual 
member), Saratoga, CA; Joe Villella (individual member), Palo Alto, CA; 
and Kurt Woodland (individual member), Morgan Hill, CA 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 remains open, and VSI Alliance 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On November 29, 1996, VSI Aliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 12, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on August 18, 2004 (69 FR 51330).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26617 Filed 12-2-04; 8:45 am]

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