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Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, telephone (202) 205–2550. 

Authority: The authority for 

institution of this investigation is 

contained in section 337 of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended, and in 

§ 210.10 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10 

(2004). 

Scope of Investigation: Having 

considered the amended complaint, the 

U.S. International Trade Commission, 

on November 22, 2004, ordered that—

(1) Pursuant to subsection (b) of 

section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, an investigation be instituted 

to determine whether there is a 

violation of subsection (a)(1)(B) of 

section 337 in the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

or the sale within the United States after 

importation of certain digital image 

storage and retrieval devices by reason 

of infringement of one or more of claims 

7–8 and 10–15 of U.S. Patent No. 

4,821,121, and whether an industry in 

the United States exists as required by 

subsection (a)(2) of section 337. 

(2) For the purpose of the 

investigation so instituted, the following 

are hereby named as parties upon which 

this notice of investigation shall be 

served: 

(a) The complainant is—Ampex 

Corporation, 1228 Douglas Avenue, 

Redwood City, California 94063–3117. 

(b) The respondents are the following 

companies alleged to be in violation of 

section 337, and are the parties upon 

which the amended complaint is to be 

served: Eastman Kodak Company, 343 

State Street, Rochester, New York 

14650–0001; Chinon Industries, Inc., 23 

11 Naka Oshio, Chino City, Nagano 391 

0293, Japan; Altek Corporation, 3F, No. 

10, Li-Hsin Road Science-Based 

Industrial Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan. 

(c) Erin Joffre, Esq., Office of Unfair 

Import Investigations, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street, SW., 

Suite 401, Washington, DC 20436, who 

shall be the Commission investigative 

attorney, party to this investigation; and 

(3) For the investigation so instituted, 

the Honorable Delbert R. Terrill, Jr. is 

designated as the presiding 

administrative law judge. 

Responses to the amended complaint 

and the notice of investigation must be 

submitted by the named respondents in 

accordance with § 210.13 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 19 CFR 210.13. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 201.16(d) and 210.13(a), such 

responses will be considered by the 

Commission if received not later than 20 

days after the date of service by the 

Commission of the amended complaint 

and the notice of investigation. 

Extensions of time for submitting 

responses to the amended complaint 

and the notice of investigation will not 

be granted unless good cause therefor is 

shown. 

Failure of a respondent to file a timely 

response to each allegation in the 

amended complaint and in this notice 

may be deemed to constitute a waiver of 

the right to appear and contest the 

allegations of the amended complaint 

and this notice, and to authorize the 

administrative law judge and the 

Commission, without further notice to 

the respondent, to find the facts to be as 

alleged in the amended complaint and 

this notice and to enter a final 

determination containing such findings, 

and may result in the issuance of a 

limited exclusion order or cease and 

desist order or both directed against the 

respondent.

By order of the Commission.

Issued: November 22, 2004. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—AAF Association, 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’’), AAF 

Association, Inc., 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, The Post Group, 

Hollywood, CA has been dropped as a 

party to this venture. Also, the following 

member has changed its name: AAF 

Member National Imagery and Mapping 

Agency to National GeospatialIntelligence Agency, Reston, VA. 

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 AAF 

Association, Inc., intends to file 

additional written notification 

disclosing all changes in membership. 

On March 28, 2000, AAF Association, 

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 June 29, 2000 

(65 FR 40127). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on June 30, 2004. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on August 6, 2004 (69 FR 47958).

Dorothy B. Fountain, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—ACORD Corporation 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

September 20, 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’’), 

ACORD Corporation (‘‘ACORD’’) has 

filed written notifications 

simultaneously 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: ACORD Corporation, 

Pearl River, NY. The nature and scope 

of ACORD’s standards development 

activities are: To improve efficiency in 

insurance and reinsurance transactions 

by: (1) Providing a common framework 

for the interchange of information; (2) 

speeding up communication of data; (3) 

reducing processing costs and 

paperwork; and (4) improving accuracy 

and facilitating e-commerce.

Dorothy B. Fountain, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division.

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