Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

Challenged claims of Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited’s patent that describes monitoring the performance of instances of a software application and correlating performance data to application instance life cycle events in a distributed computing system are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board said, in an inter partes review by Netflix Inc. The board determined that the challenged claims are obvious over prior art that describes a Resource Management Architecture that serves as a monitoring system for a distributed computing system having a plurality of hosts capable of executing multiple copies of a scalable ...