Comment on Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?

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Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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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