JavaScript stakeholders call on Oracle to release trademark - again

"Clear case" of trademark abandonment

Tom Allen
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JavaScript stakeholders call on Oracle to release trademark - again

JavaScript founders and developers are challenging Oracle's continued hold on the trademark.

More than 4,200 developers, creators and professionals have urged Oracle to give up the JavaScript trademark it has owned since 2009, accusing the company of trademark abandonment. Database gian...

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