Submitted 3 weeks ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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, because all intellectual property should be abolished and proponents of the copyright regime should be hunted down with crossbows.
Complains about an issued patent but nowhere actually includes the claims of the issue patent in the text of the article. Jfc, what garbage. If you look up the issued claims, they are pretty narrow and easy to design around. This article is bait.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
No. I can provide prior art.
neuromorph@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not how modern patents work. Its first to file now…prior art only works if there are simultaneous applications.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks 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.
(Second reference)
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WTF! Really?