National cooperative research notifications: PXI Systems Alliance, Inc.,

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--PXI Systems Alliance, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on November 26, 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''), the PXI Systems Alliance, Inc., 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, Opensystems Publishing, St. Clair Shores, MI has been added as a party to this venture. Also, B&B Technologies, Albuquerque, NM; CMI Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Datum, San Jose, CA; ERNI Components, Chester, VA; EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc., Canier, Quebec, Canada; Gespac, Geneva, Switzerland; Innovative Integration, Simi Valley, CA; International Test Technologies, Co Donegal, Ireland; IPTE, Genk, Belgium; Kinetic Systems, Lockport, IL; Mass Interface Connections GmbH (MIC), Woinzach, Germany; Measurement Computing, Middleboro, MA; Precision Photonics, Boulder, CO; and santec Corporation, Aichi, Japan have been withdrawn as parties to this venture.

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 PXI Systems Alliance, Inc., intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.

On November 22, 2000, PXI Systems Alliance, 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 March 8, 2001 (66 FR 13971).

The last notification was filed with the Department on August 31, 2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on October 4, 2004 (69 FR 59270).

Dorothy B. Fountain, Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 05-144 Filed 1-4-05; 8:45 am]

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