[Federal Register: October 4, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 191)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--International Cooperation for the Integration 
of Processes in Pre-Press, Press, and Postpress (``CIP4'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 30, 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''), the International 
Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Pre-press, Press, and 
Postpress (``CIP4'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the name and principal place of business of the standards 
development organization and (2) the nature and scope of its standards 
development activities. The notifications were filed for the purpose of 
invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act, the name and principal place of business of 
the standards development organization is: Integration

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of Processes in Pre-press, Press, and Postpress (CIP4), Zurich, 
SWITZERLAND. The nature and scope of CIP4's standard development 
activities are: to encourage computer based integration and automation 
of all processes that have to be considered in the graphic arts 
industry, in particular the specification of standards, such as CIP4's 
Job Definition Format (JDF). JDF is a comprehensive XML-based industry 
standard for end-to-end job ticket specification, device messaging and 
message interchange, and process automation methodologies.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-22154 Filed 10-1-04; 8:45 am]

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