A new Twitter patent, mainly used to defend

"Guided" in Tuesday, Twitter officially won a drop-refresh patent, but Twitter has repeatedly stressed that Twitter will only use the patent for defensive reasons, which means that unless other companies launch patent lawsuits against Twitter, Twitter does not use the patent to prosecute others.

Currently, Twitter's "drop-refresh" design patent has been approved. Drop-down refreshes the human-computer interaction design of the touchscreen was invented by Twiitie founder Lauren Bridget, but Twitter acquired Tweetie in 2010, while Lauren Bridget joined Twitter.

When Bridget received a telephone interview, he said: "In fact, in the first two months of the Twitter takeover, I started applying for a patent for the design." And the day before the acquisition agreement, I was formally filed a patent application. The

But Bridget has the same concerns as many engineers, who worry that the software industry will be abused by patent lawsuits to affect the industry's healthy development. and to take care of Bree's peculiar worries, Twitter has promised Bridget that Twitter will only use the patent to defend itself, rather than initiate lawsuits. And that's why Bridget was aware of the importance of the invention and decided to apply for a patent.

Twitter is implementing the "Innovator Patent agreement" internally. After Twitter has signed the contract with its employees, the invention of all Twitter employees during their Twitter work can only be used to defend and not initiate patent lawsuits. Twitter launched the deal a year ago and launched the 1.0 version of the agreement yesterday after extensive feedback. Twitter has promised that if Twitter breaks the deal, engineers can issue patent licenses to outsiders.

Twitter plans to add "innovator's patent agreements" to all of its patent registration messages to remind itself that it can only be used for defense.