[Federal Register: August 16, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 158)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--VSI Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 20, 2006, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), VSI Alliance has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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, HDL Design House, 
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA; chip 
Estimate Corp., Cupertino, CA; and IP Servicing Centre, Hong Kong 
Science Park, Shatin, Hong Kong-China have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., Yongin City, Republic of 
Korea; Beach Solutions, Reading, United Kingdom; Taiwan SoC Consortium, 
Chutung Hsinchu, Taiwan; and Artec Design Group, Tallinn, Estonia have 
withdrawn as parties to this venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project remains open, and VSI Alliance 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance 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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR 9812).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 28, 
2006. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 23, 2006 (71 FR 14721).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-6955 Filed 8-15-06; 8:45am]

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