Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? - Slashdot
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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says 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": "A provided data model may include a tree specification th...

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

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
    124·
    1 month ago

    No, because all intellectual property should be abolished and proponents of the copyright regime should be hunted down with crossbows.