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Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
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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.
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.
Its true. At least since 2013 rules change https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/aia_implementation/fitf_comprehensive_training_prior_art_under_aia.pdf
That presentation does the exact opposite of what you say. It widens the amount of things considered prior art to include more stuff.