[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--Multiservice Switching Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 20, 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 (1) the 
name and principal place of business of the standards development 
organization

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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 Multiservice 
Switching Forum, Fremont, CA. The nature and scope of MSF's standards 
development activities are: developing and promoting implementation 
agreements that allow open-architecture, multiservice switching systems 
in the telecommunications industry.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-24579 Filed 11-2-04; 8:45 am]

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