http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell...-called-naive/ :

Twitter has just received the patent for the popular pull-to-refresh feature used on many tech devices.

But the bigger news is that the social media giant will, for the first time, use an innovative policy on patents that gives engineers and designers a say on how the intellectual property right is used.

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Ok, that's good policy, but it doesn't mean that getting a patent for pull-to-refresh and claiming you're a "good guy" means that patent laws are somehow fixed.