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Federal Register/Vol. 84, No. 29/Tuesday, February 3492 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 29 / Tuesday, February 12, 2019 / Notices AUSTRALIA; Lucerne University of ALBANIA; Telenor Bulgaria EAD, Sofia, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Applied Sciences and Arts, Horw, BULGARIA; Telenor d.o.o. Serbia, SWITZERLAND; Managed OutTasking Beograd, SERBIA; Telenor Hungary, Antitrust Division Int’l, Tung Chung, HONG KONG– To¨ro¨kba´lint, HUNGARY; Telenor Notice Pursuant to the National CHINA; Metasite Data Insights, Vilnius, Montenegro, Podgorica, LITHUANIA; Metaswitch Networks, Cooperative Research and Production MONTENEGRO; Tessarine, Paris, Act of 1993—American Society of Enfield, UNITED KINGDOM; Millicom FRANCE; TMNS b.v., Den Haag, Mechanical Engineers Cable El Salvador, S.A. de C.V., NETHERLANDS; Transtelecom JSC, Luxembourg City, LUXEMBOURG; Astana, KAZAKHSTAN; Trisotech, Notice is hereby given that, on MindShift Ltd, Bangalore, INDIA; N- Montreal, CANADA; twim GmbH, Zug, January 28, 2019, pursuant to Section able (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, SRI LANKA; SWITZERLAND; Two Degrees Mobile 6(a) of the National Cooperative NeoNetpoint, Dublin, IRELAND; Neos Ltd, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND; TXM Research and Production Act of 1993, d.o.o., Zagreb, CROATIA; NF CSB Global Services S.A. de C.V., Saltillo, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), d.o.o., Ljubljana, SLOVENIA; NGOSS MEXICO; University of Erlangen- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (‘‘ASME’’) has filed written Lab of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Nuremberg, Chair Information Systems notifications simultaneously with the PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; II, Nuremburg, GERMANY; University Northpower Fibre, Whangarei, NEW Attorney General and the Federal Trade of Southern California—Annenberg ZEALAND; Ooredoo Algeria, Alger, Commission disclosing additions or School for Communication & ALGERIA; Ooredoo Group, Doha, changes to its standards development Journalism, Los Angeles, CA; University QATAR; Ooredoo Kuwait, Sharq Area, activities. The notifications were filed KUWAIT; Ooredoo Maldives Pvt. Ltd., of Versailles Prism Lab, Versailles, for the purpose of extending the Act’s Hulhumale, MALDIVES; Ooredoo FRANCE; Vecta Strategy, Dubai, provisions limiting the recovery of Myanmar, Jakarta, INDONESIA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; Vertical antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages Ooredoo Oman, Muscat, OMAN; Telecoms Pty Ltd, Alexandria, under specified circumstances. Ooredoo Palestine, Al Bireh, AUSTRALIA; VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, Specifically, since September 4, 2018, PALESTINE; Ooredoo Qatar, Doha, CA; Vocus Communications, ASME has published five new QATAR; Ooredoo Tunisia, Tunis, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Vodafone standards, added one consensus TUNISIA; Open University—Milton India Limited, Mumbai, INDIA; Xavient committee charter, initiated two new Keynes, Milton Keynes, UNITED Digital LLC, Simi Valley, CA; standards activities, and withdrawn one KINGDOM; ParkPlus System, Calgary, ZDSL.com, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; proposed standard from consideration CANADA; Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune, ServiceMax from GE Digital, London, within the general nature and scope of INDIA; Plintron Global Technology UNITED KINGDOM; and ZhongXing ASME’s standards development Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, INDIA; (Yinchuan) Intellectual Industry Co Ltd, activities, as specified in its original POSITIVE MOMENTUM LIMITED, Jinfeng District, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC notification. More detail regarding these London, ENGLAND; Prefeitura OF CHINA. changes can be found at www.asme.org. On September 15, 2004, ASME filed Municipal de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande No other changes have been made in do Sul, BRAZIL; ProArchCon GmbH, its original notification pursuant to either the membership or planned Meerbusch, GERMANY; PT RSM Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department activity of the group research project. Indonesia Konsultan (RSM Indonesia), of Justice published a notice in the Jakarta, INDONESIA; Riverbed Membership in this group research Federal Register pursuant to Section Technology, Inc., San Francisco, CA; project remains open, and the Forum 6(b) of the Act on October 13, 2004 (69 RMC Consulting COM TR, Istanbul, intends to file additional written FR 60895). The last notification with the TURKEY; Salzburg AG, Salzburg, notifications disclosing all changes in Department was filed on September 6, AUSTRIA; Sarpal Consultancy, membership. 2018. A notice was filed in the Federal Chigwell, UNITED KINGDOM; On October 21, 1988, the Forum filed Register on October 11, 2018 (83 FR Sauerborn Management Consulting its original notification pursuant to 51503). GmbH, Ueken AG, SWITZERLAND; Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department SevOne, Inc., Wilmington, DE; SKY of Justice published a notice in the Suzanne Morris, Brasil, Sa˜o Paulo, BRAZIL; SLA Digital, Federal Register pursuant to Section Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Belfast, UNITED KINGDOM; Smart 6(b) of the Act on December 8, 1988 (53 Antitrust Division. Dublin, Dublin, IRELAND; FR 49615). [FR Doc. 2019–02031 Filed 2–11–19; 8:45 am] SmartLiverpool Limited, Liverpool, BILLING CODE 4410–11–P UNITED KINGDOM; Smartpipe The last notification was filed with Solutions, London, UNITED KINGDOM; the Department on January 11, 2018. A SmartTel Plus OU¨ , Tallinn, ESTONIA; notice was published in the Federal DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Soliel, Reston, VA; Sunnur Network, Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Santa Clara, CA; Swazi Mobile Limited, Act on March 6, 2018 (83 FR 9545). Antitrust Division Mbabane, SWAZILAND; Swirlds, Suzanne Morris, Notice Pursuant to the National College Station, TX; Swisscom AG, Cooperative Research and Production Bern, SWITZERLAND; Symsoft AB, Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division. Act of 1993—National Shipbuilding Stockholm, SWEDEN; Systems Research Program Mechanics, Whitstable, UNITED [FR Doc. 2019–01984 Filed 2–11–19; 8:45 am] KINGDOM; TEAVARO, London, BILLING CODE 4410–11–P Notice is hereby given that, on UNITED KINGDOM; Telecom Business January 28, 2019, pursuant to Section Transformers Holding BV, Dordrecht, 6(a) of the National Cooperative NETHERLANDS; Telecom Personal Research and Production Act of 1993, Argentina, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA; 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Telekom Albania Sh.A., Tirana, National Shipbuilding Research VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:30 Feb 11, 2019 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12FEN1.SGM 12FEN1.
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