[Federal Register: December 1, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 230)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Grinding Optimization Venture

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 2, 2003, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Grinding Optimization 
Venture 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 TechSolve, Inc., 
Cincinnati, OH; Delphi, Energy & Chassis System, Dayton, OH; Applied 
Grinding Technologies, Inc., Wixcom, MI; Purdue University, West 
Lafayette, IN; and Landis Gardner--A UNOVA Company, Waynesboro, PA. The 
nature and objectives of the venture are to develop and demonstrate the 
application of an intelligent system that uses techniques of soft 
computing and artificial intelligence to learn, control, monitor, and 
optimize a variety of complex precision grinding processes without 
resorting to trial and error.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-29831 Filed 11-28-03; 8:45 am]

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