Medical Board’s Loss Upheld in Test-Question Copyright Appeal

A doctor rightly defeated copyirght claims from the the American Board of Internal Medicine, which said he passed medical board examination questions to a test prep company, the Third Circuit affirmed.

ABIM failed to establish that Dr. Jaime Salas Rushford had accessed and copied 2007 and 2008 test materials in his 2009 emails to Arora Board Review’s owner, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said.

The board also failed to register its 2009 test questions before the alleged infringement occurred, ruling out any potential award of statutory damages in the case, the Jan. 16 opinion added.

The ...