[Federal Register: November 3, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 212)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Institute of Electrical and Electronics 
Engineers

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 17, 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 Institute of Electrical 
and Electronics Engineers (``IEEE'') 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: Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ. The nature and 
scope of IEEE's standards development activities are: To develop 
consensus standards through an open process that brings diverse parts 
of the electrical engineering industry together. Through its portfolio 
of more than 870 completed standards and over 400 in development, IEEE 
promotes the electrical engineering process by creating, developing, 
integrating, sharing and applying knowledge about electro- and 
information technologies and sciences.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-24561 Filed 11-2-04; 8:45 am]

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