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`This right here?
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`Yes. This is a great place to start. Literature
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`I disagree.
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`just very briefly, how did Tibotec approach the problem?
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`Tibotec, if you go from top to bottom, which is the
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`In what respects?
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`Both yield and purity.
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`Okay. Bottom line on the ‘411 patent, what's your
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`Is it inventive?
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`It is.
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`Is it not —— is it obvious to one of ordinary skill as
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`It is nonobvious.
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`Okay. Let's switch gears to the ‘O15 patent briefly,
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`and that focuses on bis—THF; is that right?
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`That's correct.
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`And what's your view as to the challenge of
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`Formidable.
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`Now, did the prior art teach the method taught in the
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`It did not.
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`You were asked some questions about Dr. Ghosh‘s
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`I'd just like to orient us to it.
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`This is his '94 article, which I don't have the
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`'94 article is and —— well,
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`This is his '94 communication; is that right?
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`And I think you said something on your examination
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`I'd just like you to explain that.
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`Generally, at Merck, we would agree to publication of
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`It is.
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`It's actually my knowledge from the fact that
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`THE WITNESS: Yes.
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`THE COURT:
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`—— is that what you said?
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`All right.
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`Thank you.
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`THE COURT: All right.
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`Q.
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`Now,
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`the Ghosh '94; of these two methods on the slide,
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`which is the '94 method?
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`rings?
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`'94 is the diethyl malate.
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`And that is starting from a chiral material making two
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`That's correct.
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`Is that a complicated procedure?
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`It is.
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`Counsel showed you Dr. Ghosh's testimony, and I don't
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`I'm not going to read it out loud again, but I would like
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`And counsel asked you whether --
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`Page and line.
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`This is from Ghosh's deposition,
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`lines —— page 77,
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`line 22,
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`through page 78, line 14, and what I'd like you to
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`pay particular attention to is, what is he talking about
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`when he's talking about this literature?
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`MS. MAZZOCHI: Your Honor, can he read --
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`THE COURT: Let him read it first.
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`Then I'll hear
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`you. All right?
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`MS. MAZZOCHI: Okay.
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`What Ghosh is referring to --
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`THE WITNESS:
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`THE COURT: Ms. Mazzochi.
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`THE COURT:
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`I know you don't want to do that,
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`I know that.
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`I know it plagued you.
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`MR. DISKANT:
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`It plagued me, Judge.
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`THE COURT: But at the same time,
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`MR. DISKANT:
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`THE COURT: And what was the purpose of your
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`MR. DISKANT: Because I wanted to ask him his
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`THE WITNESS: Well, Ghosh is referring to the
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`diethyl malate route that we just discussed,
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`that '94 is the
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`chemical steps, if I can put it into words,
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`in this diethyl
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`The bis—THF are not very good chemistry. You
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`THE COURT: Frankly,
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`the point is, you're just --
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`the easiest thing is, whatever he said, he said.
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`It's here.
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`All right?
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`MR. DISKANT: Absolutely, Judge.
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`THE COURT:
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`BY MR. DISKANT:
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`Q.
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`And Ghosh then moved to a different method?
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`Yes, for the next five years, he worked on —— at least
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`five years on dihydrofuran.
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`Okay, and as of 2001, when the ‘O15 patent is formed,
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`what's your view about whether one of ordinary skill would
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`THE COURT: Why not?
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`THE WITNESS:
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`—— this —— a molecule like dihydrofuran, because you bought
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`you can buy it. My instructions to my people always were,
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`Do you understand in the obviousness analysis that
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`development to yield the claimed invention?
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`Is there any reason whatever to think that was true
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`No, none whatsoever.
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`THE COURT: Why do you say that?
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`THE COURT:
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`THE WITNESS: This looks like a fishing expedition
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`Um—hum.
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`Dr. Ghosh,
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`the saquinavir bis—THF derivatives that you
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`Not just molecular weight.
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`I was also trying to do
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`we replace the peptide bonds and retain the potency. Yes,
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`that was the goal.
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`Okay. And so, but molecular weight through the
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`replacement of the amide bonds with the bis—THF?
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`that was one of the goal.
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`The saquinavir had a
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`to reduce the molecular size as well, yes.
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`Okay. And you were able to do that using the bis—THF?
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`I was able to —— yes,
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`I was able to do that.
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`And —— but the saquinavir bis—THF derivatives didn't
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`provide an increase in potency over saquinavir; is that
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`correct?
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`To the best of my knowledge, bis—THF —— when you talk
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`I was the scientist who discovered bis—THF, among
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`The last one is room for improvement.
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`bis—tetrahydrofuran is not easy.
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`It's very laborious
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`synthesis and been many, many steps of the synthesis also
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`didn't work very well, and some of the scientists were aware
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`of that. And I have not seen another paper by any other
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`bis—tetrahydrofuran.
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`Okay. Now, let's turn to the University of Illinois
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`Some of the sulfonamide work that you did
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`there. There were —— from the docs that we have seen, it
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`looks like there were four sulfonamide compounds that you
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`Yes.
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`I made many compounds in 1994. Among them,
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`those four compounds looks very good, and I brought, yes.
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`Let me hand you this document as Ghosh Exhibit 3, and
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`we can see if those are the four compounds you're recalling.
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`Do you recognize this document, Dr. Ghosh?
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`Yes,
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`I do recognize this document.
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`Okay. And this is a March 1995 fax from you to Steve
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`Bertha?
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`CHARLES P. MCGUIRE, C.C.R.
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`Janssen Ex. 2029
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`Lupin Ltd. v. Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
`|PR2015-01030
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`Q.
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`As far as I'm concerned,
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`that is correct.
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`And Steve Bertha was an individual involved in
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`licensing at the University of Illinois?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`I recall his name, yes.
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`He was IP director at
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`University of Illinois, yes.
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`Q.
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`And here you're sending him all the latest data, on
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`March 6, 1995?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I believe I sent this not just alone.
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`Okay. But this was standard nomenclature in your lab,
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`the number compounds by year and when that year —— which
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`compound --
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`Q.
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`When the compound was made, yes.
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`Okay.
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`I'm going to hand you another notebook, and
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`it's going to be Ghosh Exhibit 6, and just let me know if
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`you recognize this document.
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`Yeah,
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`I recognize this document. This is one of my
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`student, John Kinkaid.
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`He also joined my group as a
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`graduate student and later on left without completing a
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`degree; moved to Abbott Laboratories in Chicago.
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`Q.
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`Okay. And let me hand you another document as Ghosh
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`Exhibit 7.
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`And do you recognize that document?
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`Yeah,
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`I recall I've seen this document.
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`I wrote this
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`e—mail to Mike Harte.
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`Q.
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`Okay. And this is a March 8, 2012 e—mail; is that
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`Janssen Ex. 2029
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`Lupin Ltd. v. Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
`|PR2015-01030
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`(Page 54 of 54)

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