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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 4, 2008, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open DeviceNet Vendor 
Association, Inc. (``ODVA'') 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, Welding Technology Corporation of 
Michigan, Farmington Hills, MI; Graco, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; Salem 
Automation Inc., Winston Salem, NC; Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA; 
S-Net Automation Co., Ltd., Kwangin-Gu, Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; 
Ethernet Direct Corporation, Taipei, TAIWAN; Chiyoda Co., Ltd., Warabi 
City, Saitama, JAPAN; and Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., 
Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Escort Memory Systems, Scotts Valley, CA; The Stanley Works, 
Troy, MI; CDA Systems, London, Ontario, CANADA; Switchgear and 
Instrumentation, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Control 
Logic, Inc., Mea, AZ; ICP DAS Co. Ltd., Kao Hsiung, TAIWAN; Marathon 
Ltd., Moscow, RUSSIA; Rockwell Automation/Entek IRD Int'l, Milford, OH; 
PPT Vision, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN; Toyogiken Co., Ltd., Nagano, JAPAN; 
ACCU-Sort Systems, Inc., Telford, PA; Wizardry Inc., Gardnerville, NV; 
Sharp Manufacturing Systems Corporation, Osaka, JAPAN; Mac Valves, 
Wixom, MI; ISAS (Integrated Switchgear & Sys. Pty Ltd.), Darwin, 
Northern Territories, AUSTRALIA; and ``APV Products,'' Unna, GERMANY 
have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 ODVA intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On June 21, 1995, ODVA 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 February 
15, 1996 (61 FR 6039).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 18, 
2008. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on April 23, 2008 (73 FR 21984).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-15671 Filed 7-15-08; 8:45 am]

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