CA Technologies is suing a rival in the Application Performance Management (APM) market, accusing AppDynamics of using three of CA‘s patented technologies. The founder and CEO of AppDynamics helped lead software development at an APM company later acquired by CA.
Use of the technologies is “willful and deliberate patent infringement,” charged Richard Donoghue, chief counsel for litigation for CA, in a statement. “We will take all steps necessary to ensure that our intellectual property is protected.”
The patent infringement lawsuit, filed in the U.S. in the Eastern District Court of New York, seeks undisclosed damages for lost profits and legal costs, as well as an injunction against further use of the CA‘s patented intellectual property (IP).
CA obtained the three patents from Wily Technology, which CA purchased in 2006 for US$375 million. AppDynamics’ founder, Jyoti Bansal, worked at Wily and, after the acquisition, CA itself. According to the CA complaint, Bansal, then a senior software engineer at Wily, was the original assignee of one patent, and he influenced the design decisions for the other two.
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