[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 250 (Wednesday, December 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71954-71955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34649]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--CommerceNet Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 29, 1998, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), CommerceNet Consortium 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, Ipnet 
Solutions, Newport Beach, CA; Comm-Press Technologies, Inc., Irving, 
TX; Cyclone Software Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ; and Netscape 
Communications Corp., Mountain View, CA have joined the Consortium as 
Corporate Portfolio members. Adventura Systems ASA, Oslo, NORWAY has 
joined the Consortium as a Core member to this venture. Also, Ignite 
Technologies, Los Altos, CA; Tiaa-Cref, New York, NY; Korea Information 
& Communications Co., Yeongdungpo-Ku, Seoul, KOREA; Unix System 
Laboratories De Mexico, S.A. de C.V, Mexico City, Mexico; Waltrip & 
Associates, Sacramento, CA; NEC Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN; 
Mohr Davidow Ventures, Menlo Park, CA; Litlenet, LLC, Lowell, MA; 
Equifax, Tampa, FL; Groupe Bull Worldwide Information Systems-USA, 
Foster City, CA; Justsystem-Japan, Tokushima, JAPAN; Justsystem-USA, 
Menlo Park, CA; Starpoint Software, Inc., Cupertino, CA; Oracle 
Corporation,

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Redwood Shores, CA; GTE, Needham, MA; Ensemble Solutions, Fairfield, 
NJ; Dynamicweb Enterprises, Inc., Fairfield, NJ; Cable and Wireless 
PLC, Menlo Park, CA; and Borland, Stanford, 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. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and CommerceNet Consortium intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On June 13, 1994, CommerceNet Consortium 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 August 31, 1994 (50 FR 45012).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 22, 
1998. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-34649 Filed 12-29-98; 8:45 am]
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