[Federal Register: July 23, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 141)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--USB Flash Drive Alliance (``UFDA'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 21, 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''), USB Flash Drive Alliance 
(``UFDA'') 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, Memory Expert International, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; 
and Infineon Technologies Flash GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, GERMANY have 
been added 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 USB Flash Drive Alliance (``UFDA'') 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On November 12, 2003, UFDA 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 
December 12, 2003 (68 FR 69423).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 12, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on February 12, 2004 (69 FR 7014).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-16861 Filed 7-22-04; 8:45 am]

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