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… here. Euronews, 28 April 2021, available here. 1.2 Appeal backfires – CAT increases Roland’s anti-competitive fine In June 2020, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) fined the music instrument maker ‘Roland’ £4 million for ‘restricting online discounting of its electronic drum kits between 2011 and 2018’. This practice, whereby a supplier requires that its products be sold at or above a minimum price, is known as resale price maintenance (RPM). As Roland admitting to the illegal … for choreography, the Copyright office issued a revised circular in March 2021. The Circular offers general information, and conditions that must be met to register choreography in the US. Sources: Variety, 22 April 2021, available here. Legal Era Online, 14 May 2021, available here. LegalZoom, 26 March 2021, available here. US Copyright Office, Copyright Registration of Choreography and Pantomime, Circular 52, available here. Image Source: Fanpop, available here. 3. Patent 3.1 Opposition emerges to EPO’s plan for compulsory video conference in oral proceedings The COVID-19 pandemic forced the European Patent Office (EPO) to switch to an online format for the oral hearings of cases. The EPO now faces a new procedural pandemic of sorts, as the EPO and Boards of Appeal (BoA) are increasingly confronted by situations, wherein at least one of the parties to the dispute disagrees with oral …