BMC Software has filed a patent infringement suit against ServiceNow, claiming its patents are violated by the rival’s IT management technologies.The company in Houston, Texas, has accused ServiceNow of allegedly violating seven patents in products in its offerings, which include incident and problem management, performance analytics, configuration management, including ServiceNow’s Configuration Management Database, discovery, orchestration, and change and release management.“BMC’s ability to earn sufficient profits from demand for its innovations is harmed when others freely use these patented technologies and offer them at below market prices because such infringers do not need to recoup BMC’s enormous R&D investments,” the company said in its complaint Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall division.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here