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

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    2 months ago

    I don’t see anywhere in 102(a)(1), 102(a)(2), or in the exception clauses of 102(b)(1)(A) or in 102(b)(1)(B) that would imply prior art not including public disclosures (there is a 1 year grace period, but it is not forgiving).

    The examples in that presentation show clearly that you can’t patent someone else’s invention if it were public knowledge beyond the 1 year grace period and only the inventors have the right to disclose it within that period and still be granted a patent.

    If the thing I want to patent existed 1 year ago and was made available in a way it could have invented what I wanted to patent, and it wasn’t me, the alleged inventor, who made that publicly available version, I don’t get the patent.

    I can patent something that has no prior art from more than a year ago. I can patent something with prior art within one year if that prior art was made available by only me.

    I need you to show me exactly the words in the link you provided that implies you can be granted a patent with prior art existing beyond the 1 year grace period from the effective filing date.