The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of iChats LLC’s patent that discloses generating and sharing interactive charts in an online portal that allows users to customize the interactive features of the chart are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Tableau Software LLC. The board said that the challenged claims are obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that relates to a method and tool which allows users to create interactive representations of input and output data, and QlikView Manuals. And the board granted in part, denied in ...