By Tyler Lacey Bank Programmer Pleads Guilty to ATM Hacking On April 13, 2010, Wired reported that Bank of America employee Rodney Reed Cavelry pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized computer access, after installing software on more than 100 ATMs that allowed him to steal more than $304,000 over a seven-month period last year. Bank of America identified Caverly’s theft internally, and was able to recover at least $167,000 in cooperation with the United States Secret Service. Bank of ... Read More...

By Jyoti Uppuluri UK Passes Controversial Digital Economy Bill The Guardian and the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that on April 8, the U.K. Parliament passed the controversial Digital Economy Bill in a late-night “wash-up” session after just two hours of debate. Two provisions of the bill in particular raised concerns among the citizenry and telecommunications companies in the U.K. The Guardian reports that the bill contains a broad-ranging clause allowing the Secretary of State for Business to block a site ... Read More...

D.C. Circuit Denies FCC Jurisdiction to Mandate Net Neutrality By Tyler Lacey – Edited by Jad Mills Comcast Corp. v FCC, No. 08-1291 (D.C. Cir., Apr. 6, 2010) Slip Opinion The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated an order issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which had asserted jurisdiction over Comcast’s network management policies and had ordered Comcast to cease discriminating against peer-to-peer network traffic. The D.C. Circuit held that the FCC does ... Read More...

Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Tiffany’s Trademark Infringement Claim Against eBay By Dmitriy Tishyevich – Edited by Jad Mills Tiffany Inc. v. eBay Inc., Case No. 08-3947 (2d Cir., Apr. 1, 2010) Slip Opinion On April 1, the Second Circuit largely affirmed the holdings of the district court in the Southern District of New York. The court concluded that despite the evidence that eBay had general knowledge that some of its customers had used its website to sell counterfeit Tiffany ... Read More...

Panel Criticizes Bilski Machine-or-Transformation Test By Kathryn Freund – Edited by Ryan Ward Editorial Policy On Thursday, April 1st, JOLT hosted a panel discussion at Harvard Law School on the impact of In Re Bilski, a 2008 en banc decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit holding that the machine-or-transformation test is the proper method for determining patent-eligible subject matter. Digest previously covered the Bilski decision here. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard oral ... Read More...