EU Patent Reform: The “forgotten” documents of the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court (Published on 14/03/2023, latest update on 05/01/2024)

Those who have been following the history of the European patent reform for a longer time know that after signing the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court in February 2012, the so-called “Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court” (“PC-UPC”) was created to establish the working capacity of the court (cf. Commission document 7265/13). It commenced its work at the beginning of 2013.

Since then, the Committee published at www.unified-patent-court.org information, documents and news it considered relevant as regards the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) , so that an interesting public documentation of the eventful history of the UPC developed there over the years.

This documentation of the numerous errors, confusions and contradictions in the establishment of the UPC was apparently not considered useful by everyone, so that almost all older publications recently disappeared from the UPC website following a so-called “relaunch”; only a few selected documents that were apparently considered useful were left online.

Most of the publications made on www.unified-patent-court.org since 2013 have been documented and archived here to ensure the future availability and usability of this information. The archived content is made available to the public on this page.



Update on 05/01/2024:


Addition of several documents as PDF files in section “News”.


General documents

27/03/2013

Paul van Beukering and Alexander Ramsay to Robin Jacob (IPJA), Thierry Sueur (Business Europe), Christian Gassauer-Fleissner (EPLAW) and Tony Tangena (EPI) re establishment of the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court

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24/06/2013

Organisational rules of the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court (author: “Alexander Ramsay”)

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24/06/2013

Roadmap of the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court (author: “Paul van Beukering”)

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17/07/2013

External Communication of the work of the Preparatory Committee (author: “Alexander Ramsay”)

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Introduction

28/06/2013

Unified Patent Court, a single patent court covering 25 countries – The Preparatory Committee

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13/10/2015

The Preparatory Committee: Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Head of Secretariat

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21/05/2021

Unified Patent Court, a single patent court covering 25 countries – The Preparatory Committee

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24/02/2022

Unified Patent Court, a single patent court covering 24 countries – The Preparatory Committee

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“News”

25/06/2013

Public consultation on the Rules of procedure for the Unified Patent Court

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22/08/2013

Jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

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20/09/2013

Preparatory Committee launches Expression of Interests of Candidate Judges

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Attachment: Call for expression of interest (author: “Preparatory Committee Secretariat”)

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Attachment: Rules of preselection procedure (author: “Preparatory Committee Secretariat”)

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18/12/2013

Progress in 2013

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29/01/2014

Interpretative note – Consequences of the application of Article 83 UPCA

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06/03/2014

Revised 16th draft of the Rules of Procedure

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Attachment: Draft Rules of Procedure, 16th version (author: “Unified Patent Court Drafting Committee”)

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Attachment: ROP digest, 16th version (author: “Unified Patent Court Drafting Committee”)

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19/03/2014

Fifth meeting of the Preparatory Committee 18 March 2014

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20/03/2014

Training Centre for European patent judges opened in Budapest

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31/03/2014

Expression of Interests of Candidate Judges: UPDATE

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06/06/2014

Progress Report to the Competiveness Council, May 26 2014, Brussels

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13/06/2014

European Patent Litigation Certificate – draft proposal and public consultation

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09/07/2014

Sixth meeting of the Preparatory Committee 8 July 2014

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11/09/2014

Expression of Interests of Candidate Judges: letters issued

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16/09/2014

Roadmap update

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Attachment: Roadmap of the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court, updated September 2014, author: “Unified Patent Court”

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16/09/2014

Chairman invites new Expert Panel to advise “Preparatory Committee”

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07/10/2014

UPC IT e-Filing available to test

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03/11/2014

Oral Hearing on the 17th draft of the Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court

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Attachment: UPC Rules of Procedure, 17th Draft

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Attachment: Legal Group digest of 17th Draft

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06/11/2014

First meeting of the Expert Panel

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06/11/2014

Seventh meeting of the Preparatory Committee

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18/11/2014

Advocate General’s Opinion in Spain v Parliament and Council

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16/12/2014

UPC IT tender published

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06/05/2015

The Court of Justice dismisses Spain’s actions against EU’s patent regulations

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06/05/2015

9th Meeting of the Preparatory Committee – 5 May 2015

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08/05/2015

Public Consultation on the Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs

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Attachment: Consultation Document – Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs (author: “Axel Jacobi”)

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Attachment: Consultation Document – Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs (author: “Unified Patent Court”)

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08/07/2015

9th Meeting of the Preparatory Committee

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16/07/2015

10th meeting of the Preparatory Committee – 10 July 2015

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07/09/2015

11th meeting of the Preparatory Committee

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09/09/2015

Draft proposal for rules on the European Patent Litigation Certificate and other appropriate qualifications

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Attachment: Explanatory memorandum

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Attachment: Draft EPLC rules

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01/10/2015

Protocol to the UPC Agreement

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Attachment: Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application, author: “UPC”

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20/10/2015

12th meeting of the Preparatory Committee – 19 October 2015

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27/10/2015

Unified Patent Court – Rules of procedure

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Attachment: UPC Rules of Procedure

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09/12/2015

13th meeting of the Preparatory Committee – 7 & 8 December 2015

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15/12/2015

Alexander Ramsay’s interview with EUROFORUM on the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court

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04/02/2016

Confirmed locations of the UPC

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15/02/2016

Preparatory Committee agree Rules on Mediation

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26/02/2016

Guidelines for the determination of Court fees and the ceiling of recoverable costs

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Attachment: Guidelines for the determination of Court fees and the ceiling of recoverable costs of the successful party

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26/02/2016

UPC Court Fees and Recoverable Costs

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Attachment: Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs

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26/02/2016

Report of the 14th Preparatory Committee Meeting

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15/04/2016

Report of the 15th Preparatory Committee meeting

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09/05/2016

UPC Judicial Recruitment

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18/05/2016

Draft Code of Conduct

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Attachment: Proposal for a Code of Conduct for the UPC – 3rd draft

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27/05/2016

16th Preparatory Committee May 26 2016 – Report of meeting

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31/05/2016

Updated FAQs on Court fees

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01/06/2016

Available positions: Legally and technically qualified judges of the Unified Patent Court – Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal

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Attachment: UPC National Eligibility Criteria FINAL (EN)

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Attachment: Information on the Selection Process of Judges at the Unified Patent Court (author: “Louise Petrelius”)

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Attachment: Legally and technically qualified judges of the Unified Patent Court – Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal

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29/06/2016

Protocol on Privileges and Immunities

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Attachment: Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the Unified Patent Court

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01/07/2016

17th Preparatory Committee – 30 June 2016

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Attachment: Communication from the Chairmen of the UPC Preparatory Committee and the EPO Select Committee dealing with the Unitary Patent, author: “Alexander Ramsay”

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Attachment: EPLAW / EPLIT / epi, Proposal for a Code of Conduct for the UPC – 4th draft

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Attachment: Preliminary set of provisions for the Rules of Procedure (“Rules”) of the Unified Patent Court, 18th draft of 19 October 2015

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Attachment: Draft Decision of the Administrative Committee of the Unified Patent Court on the scale of recoverable cost ceilings

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31/05/2016

Updated FAQs on Court fees

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FAQs Fees

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12/10/2016

18th Preparatory Committee – 10 October 2016

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17/10/2016

UPC Judicial Recruitment – Update

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28/11/2016

Update on UPC ratifications – UK signals green light

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16/01/2017

UPC – Provisional Application

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16/03/2017

Final Preparatory Committee Signals State Of Readiness – 15 March 2017

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10/04/2017

Draft Rules of Procedure – updated March 2017

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Attachment: Preliminary set of provisions for the Rules of Procedure (“Rules”) of the Unified Patent Court, 18th draft of 19 October 2015 (author: “Karcher-jo”)

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07/06/2017

UPC – Timetable Update – June 2017

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27/06/2017

A Message from the Chairman, Alexander Ramsay – June 2017

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07/07/2017

Update on Provisional Application Phase

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21/09/2017

Progress on the Unified Patent Court Project – 21 September 2017

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21/12/2017

Summing up and Looking Forward to 2018

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19/12/2018

Status of Unified Patent Court Project – 19 December 2018

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03/06/2019

UPC Judicial Recruitment – 2019 Top-up Campaign now open!

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18/12/2019

A message from the Chairman, Alexander Ramsay – December 2019

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05/03/2020

A message from the Preparatory Committee Chair, Alexander Ramsay – March 2020

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20/03/2020

Federal Constitutional Court – decision

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20/07/2020

UK Withdrawal from the UPCA

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11/09/2020

Report of the Preparatory Committee meeting held on 10 September 2020

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26/11/2020

UPC – Progress on German ratification

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21/05/2021

Available positions: There are no positions open at present

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09/07/2021

German Federal Constitutional Court declares complaints against UPCA’s ratification Bill inadmissible

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09/07/2021

Reorganisation of the Preparatory Committee’s Secretariat as from the 1st of July 2021

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18/08/2021

What the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court means for the Unified Patent Court’s timeplan

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27/09/2021

Germany ratifies the Protocol on Provisional Application

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18/10/2021

Slovenia ratifies the Protocol on Provisional Application and the UPC Agreement

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28/10/2021

Report on the Preparatory Committee meeting held on 27 October 2021

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19/01/2022

Austria closes the loop – the Protocol on Provisional Application of the UPC Agreement has entered into force

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22/02/2022

Appointment of the members and alternate members of the Advisory Committee, author: “Nicola Schreiner”

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23/02/2022

Announcement on the Unified Patent Court Administrative Committee’s inaugural meeting

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14/07/2022

The Administrative Committee takes significant steps towards the setting up of the Unified Patent Court

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25/08/2022

Case Management System – New authentication and electronic signature

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30/09/2022

Case Management System – New authentication and electronic signature – Update

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06/10/2022

Latest state of play in view of the launch of the Unified Patent Court

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Attachment: UPC Implementation Roadmap Outlook, author: “Christophe Webber”

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08/10/2022

Available positions: Registrar of the Unified Patent Court , Deputy-Registrar of the Unified Patent Court

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19/10/2022

Unified Patent Court judicial appointments and Presidium elections

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“Q&A”

13/10/2015

Questions and answers about the Unified Patent Court

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13/10/2015

Appeals

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13/10/2015

Bifurcation

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13/10/2015

Competence of the UPC

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13/10/2015

Entry into force and preparatory work

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13/10/2015

Fees

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13/10/2015

How will the judges be appointed?

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13/10/2015

Impact of the UPC

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13/10/2015

Interim measures (Provisional and protective measures and injunctions)

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13/10/2015

Languages

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13/10/2015

Opt-out and choice of forum during a transitional period

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13/10/2015

Parties to proceedings and representation

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13/10/2015

Procedure before the UPC (1): Start of proceedings (written procedure)

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13/10/2015

Procedure before the UPC (2): Interim Measure

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13/10/2015

Procedure before the UPC (3): Oral procedure

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13/10/2015

Sources of law and substantive patent law

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13/10/2015

The UPC and its judges

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13/10/2015

When will the Rules of Procedure of the UPC be available?

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13/10/2015

Evaluation and revision of the UPC Agreement

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15/07/2015

Entry into force and preparatory work

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“Committees and Ratifications”

13/10/2015

Committees and Ratifications

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“Consultations”

13/10/2015

Consultations

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