[Federal Register: August 24, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 163)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Multiservice Switching Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 16, 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''), Multiservice Switching Forum 
(``MSF'') filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its 
membership. 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, Advanced 
Fibre Communications, Petaluma, CA; Applied Innovation, Dublin, OH; 
Italtel, Settimo Milanese, Italy; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 
Kamakura, Japan; Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and Xener 
Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 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 MSF intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On January 22, 1999, MSF 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 
May 26, 1999 (64 FR 28519).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 13, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on June 21, 2004 (69 FR 344050).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-19362 Filed 8-23-04; 8:45 am]

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