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`STEADYMED LTD., VS UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
`Ruffolo, Robert on 08/19/2016
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`UNITED ST TES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`STEADYMED
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`Petitioner,
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`UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
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`Patent Owner.
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`PHD
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`Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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`1700 K Street NW, Suite
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`Reported by:
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`Elisa Dreier Reporting Corp., A U S“ Legal Suppcrt Company
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`GOODRICH & ROSATI
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`900 South
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`I N D E X
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`EXAMINATION OF ROBERT R. RUFETHJD, JR.,
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`Exhibit 1
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`Petitioner's Notice of Deposition
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`of Robert R“ Ruffolo, Jru, Ph.D.
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`Exhibit 2
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`Curriculum Vitae, UT EX. 2fl23
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`Exhibit
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`3 Declaration of Robert R. RufTolo,
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`Jr", Ph.D.
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`in Support of Patent Owner
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`Response to Petition, UT Ex. 2022
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`Exhibit 4
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`United States Patent NO. 8,497,393 62
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`Batra et a1", SteadyMed Exhibit 1001
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`Exhibit 5
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`United Therapeutics Letter Dated
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`75
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`2 January 2009 to FDA/CDER, UT EX“ 2006
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`Exhibit 6
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`CDER Reviewer Guidance,
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`Validation of Chromatographic Methods,
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`November 1994, UT EX1 2035
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`Exhibit 7
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`JOC Article: The Intramolecular
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`205
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`Novel and General Stereoselective Route to
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`enzindene Prestacyclins, Moriarty et al.
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`SteadyMed Exhibit 1004
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`Elisa Dreier Reporting Corp., A U.S Legal Support Company
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`Exhibit 8
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`Guidance for industry,
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`NonnPenicillin BetamLactam Drug’:
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`Framework for Preventing Cross—Contamination
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`HHS/FDA/CDER April 2013, UT EX. 2047
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`Exhibit 9
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`Diabetes Care, Clinical
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`Pharmacology of Human insulin, UT EX.
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`Exhibit 10
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`FDA/HES Letter Stamped
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`Mar
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`2014 to Dean Bunce OE United
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`THE? VIDEO {RZ‘lPH‘EiR 2 Good
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`This begins Media Unit No.
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`audiovisual deposition of Dr. Robert Ruffolo
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`taken in the matter of SteadyMed Limited,
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`Petitioner versus United Therapeutics
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`Corporation, Patent Owner, before the Patent
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`Trial and Appeal Board,
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`IPR No. 2016—00006.
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`This deposition is being held at
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`law offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &
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`Rosati located at 1700 K Street, Northwest,
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`Washington, DC on August 19, 2016 at
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`approximately 9:29 a.m.
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`My name is Solomon Francis and
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`our court reporter, Denise Vickery, for
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`the record, would counsel
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`MS. CHOKQI: Maya Choksi, DLA
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`represent.
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`MR. POLLACK:
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`DLA Piper LLP<US) on behalf
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`petitioner, SteadyMed Limited.
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`CORPORATION,
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`)iper, on behalf of the petitioner.
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`MR. DELAFIELD:
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`-elafield,
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`Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, on behalf
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`of United Therapeutics and the witness.
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`MR. MAEBIUS:
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`And Steven Maebius
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`from Foley & Lardner LLP on behalf of patent
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`owner“
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`THE VIDEOGRAPHER: At this time,
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`will the court reporter please swear in or
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`affirm the witness.
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`ROBERT R. RUFFOLO,
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`called for examination, and,
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`after having been
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`duly sworn, was examined and testified as
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`follows:
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`EXAMINATIQN
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`THE VIDEOGRAPHER:
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`Please
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`My name is Robert Richard
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`proceed, counsel.
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`BY MR. POLLACK:
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`Q.
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`Good morning,
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`Dr. Ruffolo.
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`Good morning.
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`To get
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`if you could just
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`state your
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`name and your current position for
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`the record.
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`Those were patent litigation cases?
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`Yes,
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`they were.
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`And about six depositions?
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`-_ yeah, about six.
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`Just to get some
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`formalities out of the way,
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`mark as Ruffolo Deposition Exhibit 1 the
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`Petitioner‘s Notice of Deposition of Robert
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`other inter partes review.
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`R. Ruffolo, Ph.D.
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`(Document marked for
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`identification purposes as Ruffolo
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`Exhibit 1.)
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`THE WITNESS:
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`Thank you.
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`BY MR. PDLLACK:
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`Q.
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`And are you in attendance here
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`today for this deposition in response to
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`petitioner's notice ef deposition?
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`Ye',
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`I am.
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`Q.
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`Have you testified in any other ~—
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`you understand this is a proceeding called an
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`inter partes review?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Y-s,
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`I do. Yes.
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`Okay. Have you testified in any
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`STEADYMED LTD. _, VS UNIT’TI) TH’QRAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
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`In the six patent Iitigations that
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`I'll do the best
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`One was Gardiner Roberts and the
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`drug was an ACE inhibitor and Tandrolapril.
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`Tandolapril,
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`I think. Trandolapril,
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`Q.
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`Trandolapril?
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`think so.
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`I can‘t be certain.
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`Let me ask yeu. Was that
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`Q.
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`Was that for the brand name company
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`or for the generic eempany that you were
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`testifying?
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`That one was for the generic and —~
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`DO you remember which company?
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`Yes.
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`It was Novartis.
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`Sandoz,
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`their generic division.
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`A.
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`Okay.
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`Eoehringer In“
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`Boehringer Ingelheim.
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`drug match.
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`I don‘t remember. That was the
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`first one I did quite
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`a while ago.
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`Q.
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`Okay. What did you testify about
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`cases
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`It was mostly about the R&D process
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`in that ca e.
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`A.
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`h, it was everything basically,
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`virtually everything on that.
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`Infiringement,
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`It was a very long case, and that one did
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`go to trial.
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`not the AstraZeneca side?
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Who won?
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`We did.
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`Okay. What about
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`in the ACE
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`inhibitor case? Who won?
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`A.
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`That one was settled and I never
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`the settlement terms, but
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`Client was «~ was
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`So that's all I know.
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`Then I did one with —— and still in
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`the process we Perkins Coie on esomeprazole,
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`and I did,
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`I think,
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`two depositions on that one
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`Procter. And
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`No,
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`there was one case.
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`Do you have an idea how much time
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`THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
`STEADYMED LTD. _, VS UNITED
`Ruffolo, Robert on 08/19/2016
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`would guest between 30 and 40
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`n t's it,
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`the
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`30 to 40?
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`I‘m guessing.
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`something in that range,
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`plus or minus.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Have you sent either Wilson
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`Sonsini or United or Fole
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`& Lardner
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`an
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`invoice?
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`A.
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`I sent
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`Wilson et a1.
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`two or three
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`invoices,
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`I think.
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`Could be four.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Do you have an est
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`imate of
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`how much the invoices
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`totaled?
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`MD
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`DELAFIELD:
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`Objection.
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`Relevance.
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`THE
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`WITNESS:
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`I guess
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`they may
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`have totaled between
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`30 and 40 thousand
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`dollars maybe.
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`BY MR. POLLACK:
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`maybe 60 hot
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`A.
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`sounds more like
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`included
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`in that and __ and so it
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`could have been more
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`than 30 or 40 hours.
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`I just don‘t
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`remember.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Somewhere between 30 and 60;
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`does that sound flair?
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`STEADYMED LTD. _, VS UNITTIJ TH’QRAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
`Ruffolo, Robert on 08/19/2016
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`i'm nrt sure it would be as high as
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`Okay.
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`30 and 50?
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`U1
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`Okay.
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`I'm sorry.
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`I meant to say
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`something at the beginning and I Forgot.
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`l have one change in my expert
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`report
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`that —— that I'd like to make.
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`)_J
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`It was ——
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`Tell you what. Let‘
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`Wait till then?
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`Yeah.
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`Okay.
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`Iill bring out the expert report
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`ask you about
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`that“
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`Okay.
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`MR. POLLACK:
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`I‘m going to mark
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`as Ruffolo Deposition Exhibit 2 UT Exhibit
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`2023,
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`the curriculum Vitae of Robert
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`Ruffoloh
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`(Document marked for
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`identification purposes as Ruffolo
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`Exhibit 2.)
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`STEADYMED LTD. , VS UNITTD TH'QRAPWUTICS CORPORATION,
`Ruffolo, Robert on 08/19/ 016
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`iv \l
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`Thtufit yorn
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`BY MR. POLLACK:
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`Q.
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`Can you confirm
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`your CV?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes,
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`this is my CV.
`
`Okay. Are there any corrections
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`you want to make to the CV?
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`A.
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`Not __ not th*.
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`i know of.
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`And if you can turn to page 13 in
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`U1
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`you mentioned?
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`wanted to look at the
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`"Expert Witness in Lawsuits."
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`So the first two cases, one is a
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`SmithKline Beeeham litigation?
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`A
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`Q.
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`Yes- .
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`Okay. And the second
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`Pharmaceuticals litigation?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes.
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`fl“-
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`those both product liability
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`kinds of cases?
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`A.
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`Yet
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`they were. Tiey were the two
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`STEADYMED LTD. , VS UNITTD TH'QRAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
`Ruffolo, Robert on 08/19/20‘6
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`mentioned earlier, yes.
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`What was the SmithKline Beecham one
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`about?
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`A.
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`Well,
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`that was the diet drug
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`litigation.
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`The so~called Fen—Phen.
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`Q.
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`Fen—Phen?
`
`Ye'.
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`indirectly acting sympathomimetic amine, and
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`Q.
`
`What was your testimony about
`
`that case? Were you an expert or a fact
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`witness?
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`was both a fact witness and an
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`exgert witness because it
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`'a= within my field
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`of autonomic pharmacology and so I served both
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`roles“
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`Q.
`
`Okay. Were you involved at all in
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`the development of Fen—Phen?
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`SmithKline Beecham
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`made phentermine, and I think that drug maybe
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`hit the market before I was born.
`
`Q .
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`Uh — huh .
`
`Okay.
`
`So why did they iivolve you
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`that case?
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`An
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`I was the highest ranking scientist
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`in the organization, and the phentermine is an
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`SteedyMed v. United Therapeutics
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`STEADYMED LTD. , VS UNITTD TH'QRAPEUTICS
`Ruffolo, Robert on 08/19/2016
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`that happens to be one oi my fielo of
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`expertise and so I was both a fact witness and
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`an expert witneos.
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`Q.
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`in the Wyeth
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`the company, but
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`And then we have tw§
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`patent
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`first two that
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`On
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`Gardiner Robe
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`Procter one?
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`correct“
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`Okay.
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`I see the other
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`STEADYMED LTD. _.
`Ruffolo,
`Robert on 08/19/2016
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`
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`VS UNIT?D THQRAPEUTICS
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`CORPORATION,
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`wmm m m 0
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`I don‘t know
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`what
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`when I made this ene,
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`and those others are
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`very
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`recent and so I prebably haven‘t
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`ad
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`ded —— I
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`just didn‘t add it yet.
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`maybe a
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`Being
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`year or two agon
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`update yeur it‘s -— I'm
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`at publishing so
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`anymore and
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`requently.
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`knew when
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`it
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`W618,
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`but
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`it's relatively current, but
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`I
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`haven‘t updated
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`it
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`me while.
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`You
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`didn't have a chance to
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`a;
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`No, and also
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`don't know
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`almost all of them,
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`I
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`had to sign some
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`issued by a judge saying you can't
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`dL close anything about it and
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`not sure i was allowed to li
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`530
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`These were
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`c.ses that were finished and
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`think, all still ongoing, and
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`I‘m ‘llowed to do that.
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