[Federal Register: December 12, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 239)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Optical Switch Venture

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 16, 2003, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Agiltron Incorporated 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 invoking the Act's provisions 
limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under 
specified circumstances. Pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act, the 
identities of the parties are Agiltron Incorporated, Wilmington, MA, 
and AC Photonics Incorporated, Santa Clara, CA. The nature and 
objectives of the venture are to develop and demonstrate a new type of 
optical switch based on an optical MEMS platform.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-30734 Filed 12-11-03; 8:45 am]

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