Tableau Beats Infringement Suit Over Online Interactive Charts

Tableau Software LLC convinced a California federal court to dismiss an infringement suit brought by its predecessor, iCharts Inc., over patents for interactive online charts.

“Because the patents’ claim language suffers fundamental infirmities that assertions elsewhere cannot repair, amending the pleadings is futile,” Senior Judge William Alsup said Thursday for the US District Court for the Northern District of California, granting Tableau’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. “‘No amendment to a complaint can alter what a patent itself states,’” Alsup said.

iCharts claimed that Tableau infringed three of its patents with its software that allows users to create interactive ...