BMC Software Sues ServiceNow For Patent Infringement

(RTTNews) - BMC Software, Inc. said Tuesday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Santa Clara, California-based ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW).

According to the lawsuit, ServiceNow has built much of its business around the infringement of BMC's patented technologies. In the filing, BMC claims its patents are being violated by products that comprise core elements of ServiceNow's IT management offerings, including Incident Management and Problem Management; Performance Analytics; Configuration Management, including ServiceNow's Configuration Management Database; Discovery; Orchestration; and Change and Release Management.

ServiceNow is accused of violating seven different BMC patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.