[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 6294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2469]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Industrial Information Infrastructure 
Protocol Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 16, 1994, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), National Industrial 
Information Infrastructure Protocol Consortium (``NIIIP'') has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties 
and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. 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 identities of 
the parties are; STEP Tools, Inc., Troy, NY; Enterprise Integration 
Technologies, Palo Alto, CA; UES, Inc., Dublin, OH; University of 
Florida, Gainesville, FL; Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX; 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Digital Equipment Corp., 
Nashua, NH; Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, Marietta, GA; MESC 
Electronic Systems, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN; International TechneGroup 
Inc., Milford, OH; Taligent, Cupertino, CA; CAD Framework Initiative, 
Austin, TX; General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division, Groton, CT; and 
IBM Corporation, Stamford, CT.
    NIIIP's area of planned activity is development of open industry 
software protocols that will integrate computing environments across 
the U.S. manufacturing base.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 95-2469 Filed 1-31-95; 8:45 am]
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