[Federal Register: December 3, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 232)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 13, 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''), Open DeviceNet Vendor 
Association, 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, Tyco Electronics, Middletown, PA; SensArray Corporation, 
Austin, TX; Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH, Asslar, GERMANY; F.A. Elec, Seoul, 
REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Draka USA, Franklin, MA; RivaTek Inc., Minneapolis, 
MN; Acromag Inc., Wixom, MI; Rockwell Automation/Reliance Electric, 
Greenville, SC; Applied Robotics Inc., Glenville, NY; Grid Connect 
Inc., Naperville, IL; Avery Weigh-Tronix, Fairmont, MN; Hanyoung Nux, 
Incheon, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Leuze lumiflex GmbH + Co., 
Feurstenfeldbruck, GERMANY; Micro Motion, Inc., Boulder, CO; Invensys 
Process Systems, Foxboro, MA; Advanced Engineering, Inc., Franklin, TN; 
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Pullman, WA; and Comtrol 
Corporation, Maple Grove, MN have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, Grayhill Inc., LaGrange, IL; Madison Cable Corporation, 
Worchester, MA; Dearborn Group, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI; Rice Lake 
Weighing Systems, Rice Lake, WI; Wittenstein Ternary Corporation, 
Nagano, JAPAN; Aera Corporation, Austin, TX; Pacific Scientific, 
Wilmington, MA; Baldor Electric, Fort Smith, AR; Tang & Associates, 
Selangor, MALAYSIA; TRS Fieldbus, Troy, MI; Denker, Auckland, NEW 
ZEALAND; EBARA Technologies, Inc., Sacramento, CA; E.O.A. Systems, 
Carrollton, TX; Com-Tec, Inc., Appleton, WI; Lantronix, Inc., Irvine, 
CA; Kojima Instruments, Inc., Kyoto, JAPAN; Celesco Transducer 
Products, Inc., Chatsworth, CA; and Northwire, Inc., Osceola, WI have 
been dropped as parties to this venture. The following member has 
changed its name: Moeller ElectroniX to Moeller GmbH, Detmold, GERMANY.
    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 Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, 
Inc. intends to file additional written notification disclosing all 
changes in membership.
    On June 21, 1995, Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, 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 February 15, 1996 (61 FR 6039).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 12, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on June 21, 2004 (69 FR 34405).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26624 Filed 12-2-04; 8:45 am]

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