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USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Re: USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Post by gwd »

> The petition to the USPTO also accuses Oracle of committing fraud in 2019 in its renewal efforts for the trademark by submitting screen captures of the Node.js website. “Node.js is not affiliated with Oracle, and the use of screen captures of the ‘nodejs.org’ website as a specimen did not show any use of the mark by Oracle or on behalf of Oracle,” the petition states."

Re: USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Post by londons_explore »

> has not sold any JavaScript goods or rendered any JavaScript services since acquiring the trademark from Sun Microsystems in 2009.

I find this hard to believe.

Somewhere in the 159,000 employees of Oracle, someone has made and sold some product using the javascript brand.

Just a single example of "Javascript" written on a spec sheet of some product would be enough to defend the trademark.

Re: USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Post by khaki54 »

T4iga wrote: post #3

Engaging in legal dispute with Oracle seems like a risky endeavor. People joke about the company consisting from 90% legal department for a reason. What would the plaintiff or the public stand to gain from Oracle relinquishing the trademark?

I can't see the plaintiff gaining anything really. Maybe he's just fed up and decided to do something about it.

Re: USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Post by iphoneisbetter »

T4iga wrote: post #3

Engaging in legal dispute with Oracle seems like a risky endeavor. People joke about the company consisting from 90% legal department for a reason. What would the plaintiff or the public stand to gain from Oracle relinquishing the trademark?

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Re: USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Post by propter_hoc »

This is great, I think this has an excellent chance.

The biggest argument Oracle would have is GraalVM but that supports primarily Java and many other languages. I'm not even sure that Oracle at this point would want to conflate Javascript and Java. (Which may be why they haven't cited GraalVM as a use of the JS mark in commerce in their trademark filings).

Re: USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

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Post by davedx »

T4iga wrote: post #3

Engaging in legal dispute with Oracle seems like a risky endeavor. People joke about the company consisting from 90% legal department for a reason. What would the plaintiff or the public stand to gain from Oracle relinquishing the trademark?

TFA:

> Dahl said Oracle’s ownership “has caused confusion and unnecessary barriers, including cease-and-desist letters sent to organizations for simply using the term ‘JavaScript’ in their names.” The USPTO filing marks a pivotal step toward freeing the JavaScript name from legal entanglements, Dahl said.

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