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-Additional IP Rights Grant (Patents)
-
-"This implementation" means the copyrightable works distributed by
-Google as part of the GRPC project.
-
-Google hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
-no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section)
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-transfer and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of this
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-claims, both currently owned or controlled by Google and acquired in
-the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by this
-implementation of GRPC.  This grant does not include claims that would be
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