[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 49 (Thursday, March 13, 2014)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05451]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 5, 2014, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Unified Extensible Firmware 
Interface Forum (``UEFI Forum'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the name and principal place of business of 
the standards development organization and (2) the nature and scope of 
its standards development activities. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: Unified 
Extensible Firmware Interface Forum, Beaverton, OR. The nature and 
scope of UEFI Forum's standards development activities are: UEFI Forum 
members, through the Forum's Working Groups, develop, manage, and 
promote UEFI Specifications and the Advanced Configuration and Power 
Interface (``ACPI'') Specification--which are voluntary consensus 
standards under the Act--and Test Suites to test compliance with these 
Specifications. The purpose of these Specifications is to simplify and 
secure platform initialization and firmware boot up operations. UEFI 
Forum's members are industry-leading technology companies, whose 
consensus efforts promote business and technological efficiency, 
improve performance and security, facilitate interoperability between 
devices, platforms and systems, and enable next-generation technologies 
to emerge.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-05451 Filed 3-12-14; 8:45 am]
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