LawGeek: “Should Yahoo! Be Able to Patent “Smart Drag And Drop”?
Whether “Smart Drag and Drop” can be patented is beyond the scope of this blog but readers may be interested in the Peer-to-Patent project described therein:
“The Peer-To-Patent Project is a new initiative by New York Law School’s Do Tank in cooperation with the U.S. Patent Office to use open source and open knowledge techniques to help stop the deluge of bad software patents in America. The project works by posting new software patent applications that have been voluntarily submitted by their inventors and asking the public to comment on them.”

43(B)log: “If You Can Make It Anywhere, You Can Make It Here.”
“The Second Circuit certified two questions to the New York Court of Appeals. That court concluded that New York does have a common-law unfair competition claim, but that doesn’t include the famous/well-known marks doctrine. Except insofar as it actually does . . .”

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Phillips Domestic Applicances v. Braun and P&G, CV 07 CV 11290 (SDNY Dec 17 2007) (complaint on Pacer):
“Braun has been losing market share in the U.S. electric shaver business to Norelco – the brand owned by Phillips – for years . . . To reverse this trend, Braun and its new owner, P&G, needed to significantly refresh the Braun shaver line. But, because Defendants lacked any new true invention to offer consumers, Braun and P&G began to pretend that they did.” (Para 1, Complaint).
This is a false advertising case filed by Phillips in the SDNY yesterday concerning Braun’s advertising for its PULSONIC shaver. If Phillips allegations are correct, then a lot of comforting notions are going to fall away. For example, there’s no correlation between liquid rippling and skin rippling. Also, the presence of the ‘ripple’ in the skin, does not in fact depress the skin, thus exposing more hair. And, sadly, both the Pulsonic and the 360 Complete produce approximately 6 Pascals of acoustical pressure, not enough to create any sort of sonic effect.
Coverage here.

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Designboom: “‘Liquidated Logos by Zev“:
“zevs is a young french artist who lives and works in paris. he doesn’t typically display his work in galleries, preferring instead to use the urban environment as the canvas for his street art. he has pioneered his own style of french street art that blurs the line between vandalism and art.”