Google usually gives a message saying they've lifted the penalty, something like "previously the webspam team took action on your website but we've now lifted this..." Did you not get one?
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RE: Google Penalty - Has It Been Lifted?
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RE: Duplicate Title tags even with rel=canonical
Technically it is still a duplicate title tag, you just won't be getting penalised for it that's all.