Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
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Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? - Slashdot
America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data
No. I can provide prior art.
Not how modern patents work. Its first to file now....prior art only works if there are simultaneous applications.
It is how patents work. I can't claim I have a patent just because I invented it first (which I'm sure I didn't), but a patent can't be filled for something for which there is prior art.
You can't go out and patent the wheel just because nobody has filed for a wheel patent before.
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WTF! Really?
That sounds extremely unhealthy and unfair.
By that logic, you could be required to pay patent fees for your own invention to someone who simply copied it from you. But filed for patent when you didn't, because you considered it to simple to justify a patent.