NEWARK, NJ – A New Jersey federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a longtime professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology who claimed the university copied and commercialized his graduate-level machine learning course without his permission during his medical leave.

Dr. Usman Roshan, a data science professor employed at NJIT since 2004, filed suit earlier this year alleging copyright infringement and retaliation after he discovered what he believed was unauthorized use of his course, CS 675, which he developed in 2013. Roshan asserted that the school repackaged his content as an online offering while he was on family medical leave between 2021 and 2023 — and later barred him from teaching it.

But in a ruling filed Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti granted N

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