CA Technologies Seeks Injunction Against AppDynamics’ Use of CA Intellectual Property
July 21 2014 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
New Filing Alleges AppDynamics Code Was Written
While Its Founders Were Employed by CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has filed
counterclaims against AppDynamics, Inc. and its founders, Jyoti
Bansal (“Bansal”) and Bhaskar Sunkara (“Sunkara”), in a lawsuit
pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
California. It is clear that significant portions of the
AppDynamics code was written while its founders were CA employees.
CA will take every necessary step to ensure that others do not use
its code or infringe its patents.
CA is seeking a court declaration that it owns the code written
prior to Bansal's and Sunkara's departure from CA as well as any
derivative works. CA is also seeking an injunction against
AppDynamics prohibiting the misuse of CA's intellectual property
and financial damages.
The claims filed today allege that Bansal and 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 maintains that these actions occurred after
CA acquired Wily Technologies, its APM product and its key software
engineers in 2006. CA alleges these actions violated obligations
Bansal and Sunkara had under agreements with CA, breached duties
they owed under law and infringed CA's intellectual property
rights.
In April 2013, CA filed a patent infringement suit against
AppDynamics, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of New York. CA discovered the facts underlying its
current claims during pre-trial proceedings in the New York
case.
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