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    <h1 class="p-name no-ref" id="title">W3C Process Document</h1>
-   <p id="w3c-state"><a href="https://www.w3.org/standards/types#CG-DRAFT">Draft Community Group Report</a>, <time class="dt-updated" datetime="2024-09-11">11 September 2024</time></p>
+   <p id="w3c-state"><a href="https://www.w3.org/standards/types#CG-DRAFT">Draft Community Group Report</a>, <time class="dt-updated" datetime="2024-10-08">8 October 2024</time></p>
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 	follows the <a href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/">most recent operative Process Document</a> announced to the Membership. </p>
    <p> This document is developed by the Advisory Board’s Process Task Force
 	working within the <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/">W3C Process Community Group</a> (which anyone can join).
-	This is the 11 September 2024 Draft Community Group Report for the proposed next version of the W3C Process Document. </p>
+	This is the 8 October 2024 Draft Community Group Report for the proposed next version of the W3C Process Document. </p>
    <p>This document,
 which is based on the <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/">3 November 2023 Process</a>,
 is a work in progress
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 	by <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#overrule" id="ref-for-overrule③">overruling</a> all <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#FormalObjection" id="ref-for-FormalObjection③⑧">Formal Objections</a> against the original or revised proposal,
 	respectively.</p>
     <p>For publications which have conditions in addition to <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#advisory-committee" id="ref-for-advisory-committee②④">AC</a> approval
-	for introducing <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#substantive-change" id="ref-for-substantive-change②">substantive changes</a> (such as <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#w3c-group" id="ref-for-w3c-group⑤">Group</a> consensus or implementation experience),
+	for introducing <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#substantive-change" id="ref-for-substantive-change②">substantive changes</a> (such as <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#w3c-group" id="ref-for-w3c-group⑤">Group</a> consensus or implementation experience
+	or going through a patent <a data-link-type="dfn" href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#exclusion-opportunity" id="ref-for-exclusion-opportunity">Exclusion Opportunity</a>),
 	those other conditions must also be re-fulfilled.</p>
     <div class="example" id="example-2c1b534e"><a class="self-link" href="#example-2c1b534e"></a> For example, if <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#substantive-change" id="ref-for-substantive-change③">substantive changes</a> to a <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#technical-report" id="ref-for-technical-report④">technical report</a> are requested when assessing the transition from <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#RecsCR" id="ref-for-RecsCR">Candidate Recommendation</a> to <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#RecsW3C" id="ref-for-RecsW3C①">Recommendation</a>,
 		the technical report would need to go through a new <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#update-requests" id="ref-for-update-requests">Update Request</a> and be republished as a new <a data-link-type="dfn" href="#RecsCR" id="ref-for-RecsCR①">Candidate Recommendation</a>;
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