[Federal Register: February 2, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 21)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Cree, Inc. and Nanocrystal Lighting Corporation 
Under ATP Award No. 70NANB4H3037

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 12, 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''), Cree, Inc. and Nanocrystal 
Lighting Corporation under ATP Award No. 70NANB4H3037 (``Joint 
Venture'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities of the parties to the venture and (2) the nature and 
objectives of the venture. 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 identities of the parties 
to the venture are: Cree, Inc., Durham, NC; and Nanocrystal Lighting 
Corporation, Briarcliff Manor, NY. The general area of the Joint 
Venture's planned activity is to cooperate in performing research in 
the field of high efficiency solid state lighting. The research will be 
partially funded by an award from the Advanced Technology Program, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-1968 Filed 2-1-05; 8:45 am]

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