Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4703 - State Board of Examiners of Architects
Chapter 4703-3 - Certification
Section 4703-3-10 - Authorship and control

(1) Whether both the diagrammatic organization and the specific layout of the work produced by a registered architect are the same or substantially the same as in a design by another registered architect;

(2) Whether both the selection and application of structural and construction systems of the work produced by a registered architect are the same or substantially the same as in a design by another registered architect;

(3) Whether the appearance of the work, in its main view or views, produced by a registered architect are the same or substantially the same as to give a registered architect expert witness the idea created by the design;

(4) Whether the differences between the work produced by a registered architect and that produced by another registered architect are, in the opinion of a registered architect expert witness, trivial in nature and extent;

(5) Whether the appearance and content of the work prepared by a registered architect are so similar to the work prepared by another registered architect as to cause a registered architect expert witness to conclude that the former registered architect copied the work of the latter;

(6) Whether a registered architect had access to work prepared by another registered architect or to the embodiment of the other registered architect's work;

(7) Whether the ideas expressed in documents or work of a registered architect, and the method of expressing it or them, were the same or substantially the same as in documents or work prepared by another registered architect as to cause a registered architect expert witness to conclude that the former registered architect copied the documents or work of the latter;

(8) Whether there is substantial similarity, though not literal or exact reproduction, between the documents or work prepared by a registered architect and that prepared by another registered architect as to cause a registered architect expert witness to conclude that the former registered architect expressed no originality.