Home Design Company Seeks High Court Review Of Intervest In Copyright Suit

(January 18, 2017, 11:00 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a dispute over an architectural floor plan, a home design company asks the U.S. Supreme Court in a Dec. 21 petition for certiorari to consider whether Intervest Construction Inc. v. Canterbury Estate Homes Inc. (554 F.3d 914, 919 [11th Cir. 2008]) should be overruled in light of conflicting precedent from other appellate courts, which hold that architectural works are entitled to the same protection as other copyrightable, original works under the Federal Copyright Act (Home Design Services Inc. v. Turner Heritage Homes Inc., et al., No. 16-858, U.S. Sup.)....