[Federal Register: August 30, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 167)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Salutation Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 5, 2004, 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''), Salutation Consortium, Inc. 
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, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan 
has been dropped as a party 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 Salutation Consortium, Inc. intends 
to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On March 30, 1995, Salutation Consortium, Inc. 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 June 27, 1995 (60 FR 33233).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 25, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on June 21, 2004 (69 FR 34406).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-19766 Filed 8-27-04; 8:45 am]

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