National cooperative research notifications: Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc.,

[Federal Register: August 29, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 168)]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on July 30, 2003, pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (``SI2'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. 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, Agere, Allentown, PA; Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, Japan; Tektronix, Beaverton, OR; Artisan Components, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Multi-Gig, Ltd., Wellingborough, United Kingdom; Nassda, Santa Clara, CA; Sagantec, Fremont, CA; Silicon Canvas, San Jose, CA; Synplicity, Sunnyvale, CA; and Verisity Design, Inc, Mountain View, CA have been added as parties to this venture. Also, Avant!, Sunnyvale, CA; Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ; Matsushita Electronic Ind. Company, Osaka, Japan; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan; Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA; Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX; Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Agile Software, San Jose, CA; Partminer, Englewood, CO; Aprisa, Westlake Village, CA; Chronology, Inc., Redmond, WA; Circuit Semantics, San Jose, CA; eChips, Austin, TX; eSilicon, Palo Alto, CA; IC Master, Garden City, NJ; Infoquick, Irvine, CA; Intime Software, Cupertino, CA; Numerical Technologies, San Jose, CA; Saqqara Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Synapticad, Blacksburg, VA; Virtual Component Exchange, Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom; VSI Alliance, Los Gatos, CA; and Web-Pro, Ltd., Hong Kong, Hong Kong-China have been dropped 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 SI2 intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On December 30, 1988, SI2 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 13, 1989 (54 FR 10456).

The last notification was filed with the Department on May 2, 2001. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on June 4, 2001 (66 FR 30007).

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

[FR Doc. 03-22080 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]

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