Tableau Software, LLC et al. v. iCharts LLC

IPR2024-01388

Tableau Software filed an IPR petition seeking to invalidate iCharts’ ’595 patent covering interactive chart creation. The petition alleges all 18 claims are obvious over prior‑art tools such as Rostoker and QlikView manuals, invoking 35 U.S.C. §103.

Jurisdiction
US PTAB
Case Number
IPR2024-01388
Decision Date
26 September 2024
Filing Date
26 September 2024

Detailed Summary

In a petition for inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 9,712,595, Tableau Software challenges the validity of all 18 claims covering systems and methods for creating interactive charts. The petitioner argues that each claim is obvious in view of a combination of prior‑art references—including the Rostoker publication, QlikView Reference and Server manuals, and secondary references Clark, Jou, and Couckuyt—under 35 U.S.C. §103. The petition also asserts there is no objective indicia of patentability and that discretionary denial under §325(d) is inappropriate, requesting that the PTAB institute the IPR and cancel the challenged claims.

Practitioner Note

This case demonstrates the evidentiary and procedural standards applied in patent matters before local courts. Understanding the court's reasoning in Tableau Software, LLC et al. vs iCharts LLC is valuable context for structuring arguments or assessing risk in similar proceedings.

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