[Federal Register: May 22, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 98)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Institute of Electrical and Electronics 
Engineers

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 1, 2009, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the

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National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 
4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Institute of Electrical and Electronics 
Engineers (``IEEE'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
additions or changes to its standards development activities. 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, IEEE has initiated 
12 new standards and is revising 6 existing standards. More detail 
regarding these PARS can be found at http://standards.ieee.org/
standardswire/sba/03-19-09.html.
    On September 17, 2004, IEEE 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 November 3, 2004 (69 FR 64105).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 9, 
2009. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 10, 2009 (74 FR 10298).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-11768 Filed 5-21-09; 8:45 am]

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