Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement

Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by zdw on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @01:59PM (#3854039)

I wonder if Twitter will retroactively apply this to the "pull to refresh" patent they acquired when they purchased the Tweetie and turned it into the official Twitter client:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

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Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by apike on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @02:02PM (#3854055)

They will. From the announcement (http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovator...):

> We will implement the IPA later this year, and it will apply to all patents issued to our engineers, both past and present.

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Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:56PM (#3854665)

Tweetie's developer is indicating this applies to pull-to-refresh: https://twitter.com/lorenb/status/192298232968249344

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Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by isaach on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @02:01PM (#3854053)

See this tweet from Twitter Comms: https://twitter.com/mgrooves/status/192303330876334082

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Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by rfrey on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @02:03PM (#3854058)

We will implement the IPA later this year, and it will apply to all patents issued to our engineers,

which is different than the acquired patent you mention, but at least indicates the intention to make the policy retroactive.

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Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by btn on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @06:18PM (#3855323)

That's not a patent, it's an unreviewed patent application.

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Re:Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement by olalonde on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:54AM (#3856693)

On a related note, Gmail's mobile client uses "pull to refresh".

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