Above: AppDynamics co-founder Bhaskar Sunkara, left, at VentureBeat's MobileBeat conference in San Francisco on May 9.
A patent-infringement lawsuit between two application-monitoring software companies just got much more interesting.
CA, a publicly traded legacy business software provider, said today it has introduced some significant new findings into its case against fast-growing competitor AppDynamics that’s pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
AppDynamics founders Jyoti Bansal and Bhaskar Sunkara “secretly began to develop an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product and business to compete directly with CA while they were still CA employees,” CA said in a statement.
Now CA wants the court to rule that it owns the code Bansal and Sunkara wrote before they left CA, and “any derivative works.” CA also wants the court to impose an injunction on AppDynamics that would stop it from “the misuse of CA’s intellectual property.”
AppDynamics did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new claims in the suit.
A ruling against AppDynamics could have serious implications, as AppDynamics faces competition from CA as well as New Relic, among others. New Relic has been on the verge of going public and recently took on more capital that helps it put off that move.
Meanwhile AppDynamics has been diversifying with more analytics capabilities
CA made its discovery in the run-up to a trial for the patent infringement case CA originally filed in New York last year. Bansal did not sound intimidated by the suit in an interview with Bloomberg last year.
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As CTO and SVP of Product Management, Bhaskar is responsible for product management, user experience, and field engineering enablement at AppDynamics. Bhaskar also drives AppDynamics' Customer-centric Innovation methodology to combine ... read more »
