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[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 64106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-24571]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 17, 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''), Mobile Imaging and Printing 
Consortium, Inc. (``MIPC'') has filed written 
notificationssimultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the name and principal place of 
business of the standards development organization and (2) the nature 
and scope of its standards development activities. 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 name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: Mobile 
Imaging and Printing Consortium, Inc., Escondido, CA. The nature and 
scope of MIPC's standards development activities are: (a) To promote 
and support the development and adoption of implementation guidelines 
relating to the direct printing of images and other content from Mobile 
Terminal Devices (defined below) to home printers (the 
``Deliverables''); for purposes of this notice, ``Mobile Terminal 
Devices'' means mobile phones (with or without camera features) and 
other handheld mobile devices with image capture or transfer 
capabilities and long distance wireless connectivity; (b) to promote 
such Deliverables and other solutions worldwide to ensure that a broad 
spectrum of goods and services that are compliant with the Deliverables 
is developed; (c) to ensure the compliance of goods and services with 
the Deliverables through the dissemination and promotion of high-
quality and unambiguous Deliverables; (d) to promote confidence in 
products designed in compliance with the Deliverables; (e) to create 
high customer awareness of, demand for, and confidence in products 
designed in compliance with Deliverables; (f) to create a variety of 
printed and/or electronic materials relating to the Deliverables for 
distribution to members and non-members of the Corporation; (g) to 
maintain its own Web site; (h) to coordinate marketing activities and 
create marketing materials relating to the promotion of the 
Deliverables; (i) to establish and maintain formal relations with (and, 
as appropriate, leverage off of standards developed by) other standard 
setting consortia to ensure coherence among the Deliverables and 
specifications and implementation guidelines of such other 
organizations; and (j) to undertake such other activities as may from 
time to time be appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the 
goals set forth above.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-24571 Filed 11-2-04; 8:45 am]
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