Architect’s lawsuit alleging One WTC copyright infringement moves forward—barely

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Architect’s lawsuit over One World Trade Center can proceed—with carve outs

Back in 2017, Georgia-based architect Jeehoon Park sued the team behind One World Trade Center—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Durst Organization, the Port Authority, and Tishman Construction—alleging that those firms ripped off one of his designs. Now, two years later, a judge is allowing three of Park’s claims to move into the discovery phase, while dismissing several others, according to The Real Deal.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan federal court, alleged copyright infringement on a design that Park called Cityfront, which he created in 1999 as a graduate student at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology. Park alleges that his thesis advisor was an associate partner at SOM, and thus had access to his design.

The judge in the case, Richard Sullivan, dismissed many of the claims, but is allowing three to move forward. But he also said that those are proceeding “only by the skin of their teeth,” according to TRD.

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