[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 195 (Friday, October 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 59875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25722]


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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 high-
quality 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.
[FR Doc. 00-25722 Filed 10-5-00; 8:45 am]
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