High Court Denies Review of Circuit Split in Code Copyright Case

Defense contractor Strategic Technology Institute Inc. failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over whether judges or juries determine the copyrightability of computer code.

The high court denied Strategic Technology’s petition for a writ of certiorari on Monday.

Strategic Technology petitioned the justices to take up the case after a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision favoring MGMTL LLC in a lawsuit over the computer code for a security management tool developed by a military veteran. According to Strategic Technology’s petition, the copyrightability of code is decided by the court in the ...