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Trademark office petitioned to cancel Oracle's trademark on "JavaScript" [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2024-11-26

JavaScript is the name of the most popular and widely-used programming language. Due to a series of historical absurdities, such as the decision to name it after Java, a completely different language, JavaScript is now also a trademark registered to Oracle. Deno Land, a top JavaScript expert, has petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel that registration.

Oracle's army of lawyers will now get paid to explain rent to programmers, again. I hope the trademark is canceled, though, for all those clear and righteous reasons.

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