[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 15, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 34364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-16698]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--DVD Copy Control Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 5, 2009, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), DVD Copy Control Association 
(``DVD CCA'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
its membership. 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, Continental Automotive GmbH, Wetzlar, GERMANY; DVS Korea 
Co., Ltd., Kyungi-do, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; East European Authoring and 
Encoding Centre Ltd., Sofia, BULGARIA; Ever Best Industrial (H.K.) 
Limited, Kowloon, HONG KONG-CHINA; Everbest Technology Development 
Ltd., North Point, HONG KONG-CHINA; Forworid Electronics Co., Ltd., 
Taichung City, TAIWAN; Hong Kong ASA Multimedia Co., Ltd., Kowloon, 
HONG KONG-CHINA; Orbit Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; Tecunion 
Electronics Technology Ltd., Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; 
Ultra Source Technology Corp., Hong Kong, HONG KONG-CHINA; Unicorn 
Information Systems Co., Ltd., Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Willette 
Acquisition Corp. dba Allied Vaughn, Minneapolis, MN; and Zhejiang 
Tianle Digital Electric Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 
have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Beautiful Enterprise Co., Ltd., Kowloon, HONG KONGCHINA; 
Cinea, Inc., Richmond, VA; Dicentia A/S, Sakskobing, DENMARK; Evatone, 
Inc., Clearwater, FL; Hewlett-Packard Company, Cupertino, CA; KalosNett 
Co., Ltd., Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Kawai Musical Instruments Nfg. 
Co., Ltd., Shizouka, JAPAN; New York Nickel LLC, Bohemia, NY; Pinnacle 
Systems, GmbH, Braunschweig, GERMANY; Protect Software GmbH, Dortmund, 
GERMANY; Protocall Technologies Incorporated, Commack, NY; 
ScientificAtlanta, Inc., Lawrenceville, GA; and Zhongshan Tomel Audio & 
Video Products Co., Ltd., Guangdong, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA have 
withdrawn as parties to this venture. In addition, Homenema Disk Inc. 
has changed its name to Homenema Technology Inc., Taipei Hsien, TAIWAN.
    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 DVD CCA intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 11, 2001, DVD CCA 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 
August 3, 2001 (66 FR 40727).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 6, 
2009. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 20, 2009 (74 FR 17985).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-16698 Filed 7-14-09; 8:45 am]
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