Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 195 / Friday, October 6, 2000 / Notices 59875

National Cooperative Research and

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Multiservice

Switching Forum (‘‘MSF’’) 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,

Accelerated Networks, Moorpark, CA;

Oki Electric, Chiba, Japan; and

Swisscom AG, Berne, Switzerland have

been added as parties to this venture.

Vertex Networks, San Jose, CA has been

dropped as a party to this venture. Also,

the following parties have changed their

names: Hewlett Packard, Edinburgh,

Scotland, United Kingdom is now

Agilent, Edinburgh, Scotland, United

Kingdom; Harris & Jeffries, Dedham, MA

is now NetPlane, Dedham, MA; and

MCIWorldCom, Richardson, TX is now

WorldCom, Richardson, TX.

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 MSF intends

to file additional written notifications

disclosing all changes in membership.

On January 22, 1999, MSF 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 May 26, 1999 (64 FR 28519).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on April 6, 2000. A

notice for this filing has not yet been

published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,

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; Petroleum Environmental

Research Forum (‘‘PERF’’)

Notice is hereby given that, on August

18, 2000, 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 Petroleum

Environmental Research Forum

(‘‘PERF’’) 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, BOC Gases Technology,

Murray Hill, NJ has been added as a

party 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 the Petroleum

Environmental Research Forum

(‘‘PERF’’) intends to file additional

written notification disclosing all

changes in membership.

On February 10, 1986, the Petroleum

Environmental Research Forum

(‘‘PERF’’) 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 14,

1986 (51 FR 8903).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on June 6, 2000. A

notice has not yet been published in the

Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,

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—SchoolTone Alliance, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on July

25, 2000, pursuant to section 6(a) of the

National Cooperative Research and

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), SchoolTone

Alliance, Inc. (‘‘SchoolTone’’) has filed

written notifications simultaneously

with the Attorney General and the

Federal Trade Commission disclosing

(1) the identities of the parties and (2)

the nature and objectives of the venture.

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 identities of

the parties are SchoolTone Alliance,

Inc., San Francisco, CA; AboveNet, San

Jose, CA; ACTV, New York, NY;

BigChalk, Bellingham, WA; Blackboard,

Inc., Washington, DC; Britannica, San

Francisco, CA; Callisto Media Systems,

Hull, Quebec, CANADA; Computer

Curriculum Corporation, Sunnyvale,

CA; Exodus Communications, Santa

Clara, CA; HighWired.com, Watertown,

MA; I-Mind Education Systems, Inc.,

Corte Madera, CA; Isis Communications

Limited, Melbourne, Victoria,

AUSTRALIA; Jason Project, Waltham,

MA; Lucent Technologies, Warren, NJ;

Open School/Open Learning, Victoria,

British Columbia, CANADA; Power

School, Folsom, CA; RiverDeep

Interactive Learning, Cambridge, MA;

Simplexis, San Francisco, CA; SRI

International, Menlo Park, CA; Sun

Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA;

Timecruiser Computing Corporation,

Fairfield, NJ; and USA Video

Interactive, Mystic, CT.

The nature and objectives of the

venture are to improve the quality and

effectiveness of kindergarten through

12th grade (‘‘K–12’’education by

creating a global association of

technology and service companies to

promote collaboration among

companies in providing ‘‘anytime,

anywhere learning’’ over the web; to

create and promote the offering of highquality portals that provide affordable

and easy-to-access Internet content and

communication tools and applications

for K–12 schools; to promote the

development of web-based educational

materials, portal technologies,

applications and services which can be

deployed through educational service

providers to K–12 schools worldwide,

and be a forum for the suppliers of such

materials, portal technologies,

applications and services; to evaluate

grant proposals and recommend the

selection of specific K–12 schools as

grant recipients for computer hardware,

software and related technologies to be

donated free of charge or below cost by

for-profit corporations; and to promote

to schools the availability of on-line

academic resources free or at an

affordable cost. The corporation shall

not engage in commercial sales of

products or services. In furtherance of

the above stated specific purpose,

SchoolTone may, among other things,

engage in theoretical analysis;

experimentation; systematic study

research; development; testing; the

extension of investigative findings or

theory of a scientific or technical nature

into practical application; the

collection, exchange and analysis of

research or production information; and

any combination of the foregoing.

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

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