CA Technologies Targets New Relic over APM Software

 On Sunday, November 11, 2012, CA Technologies, Inc. (plaintiff) recorded a suit against New Relic. Inc, (defendant) for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Newyork (case no. 2:12-cv-05468).

CA Technologies, Inc., formerly CA, Inc. is an independent corp. that creates systems software for mainframe, distributed computing, virtual machine and cloud computing environments. New Relic is a web application performance management (APM) tool that enables review of performance at various levels from end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.

The patents involved in this suit are listed below:

Patent No. Current  Assignee (source:MaxVal’s Assignment Database[[i]])	Issue Date	Expiration Date[[ii]]	Title
US7225361 CA, INC.	May 29, 2007	Feb 21, 2022	Detecting a Stalled Routine
US7512935 CA, INC.	Mar 31, 2009	Feb 28, 2021	Adding Functionality to Existing Code at Exits
US7797580 CA, INC.	Sep 14, 2010	Feb 21, 2022	Determining that a Routine has Stalled

According to the complaint, the defendant’s product New Relic software allegedly infringes the above patents. APM is the discipline within systems management that focuses on monitoring and managing performance and availability of software applications. This discipline looks at workflow and related IT tools deployed to detect, diagnose, and report on application performance issues to ensure that it meets or exceeds expectations of end-users and businesses.

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[ii]Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S. utility patents.