[Federal Register: December 16, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 241)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Data Interchange Standards Association, 
Secretariat for ANSI ASC X12

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 21, 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''), Data Interchange Standards 
Association,

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Secretariat for ANSI ASC X12 (``X12'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
commission disclosing (1) the same 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 propose 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: Data 
Interchange Standards Association, Secretariat for ANSI ASC X12, Falls 
Church, VA. The nature and scope of X12's standards development 
activities are: to develop, maintain, interpret, publish and promote 
the proper use of electronic business interchange standards, which may 
be based on, but are not limited to, the Electronic Data Interchange 
(``EDI'') or the Extensible Markup Language (``XML'') syntaxes. 
Standards activities undertaken by X12 may encompass any subject area 
for which electronic business interchange standards can be developed. 
Subject areas include, but are not limited to, order processing, 
shipping and receiving, invoicing, payment and cash application data, 
transportation, product development, manufacturing, quality, marketing, 
and data to and from entities involved in finance, insurance, 
education, and state and federal governments. This includes activities 
leading to both American National Standards and international 
standards.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-27539 Filed 12-15-04; 8:45 am]

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