The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has upheld a ruling that Dan Brown did not copy elements of novels by author Lewis Purdue (The Da Vinci Legacy and Daughter of God) in The Da Vinci Code. The decision comes on the back of the high-profile case in London this month where a British court rejected charges he plagiarised The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Purdue however takes issue with the reporting of this latest decision, saying that Random House sued him...not the other way around.