Most recently, in late September, more than 2,500 stakeholders wrote an open letter to Oracle to abandon JavaScript trademarkwhich came into the company’s ownership in 2009 after the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Back in 1995, Sun filed an application for protection of the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which was finalized in 2000, and since then there have been numerous attempts to get the company to quasi-free use of the name of the programming language.
While the database giant does not use the name JavaScript for any commercial products, it does exercise control over the term as the owner of the trademark, resulting in JavaScript-oriented organizations such as JSConf having to refrain from using the name to avoid potential legal ramifications.
After Oracle failed to respond to the developers’ requests many times, the company behind the Deno JavaScript runtime has recently submitted an application to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in which it requests the deletion of the “JavaScript” brand name. This would eliminate the legal an obstacle to the JavaScript development community being able to refer to the programming language in various commercial contexts.
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According to Deno’s filing, Oracle may have committed fraud in filing the trademark, and the database giant is actually using the trademark for non-commercial purposes, making it completely unjustified to own it. Thus, the interested parties have already turned directly to the office with the request that if the giant company known for its database manager is not willing to voluntarily renounce the use, then the official body should cancel the trademark protection.
As a result of the procedure, even Oracle has to take active steps in order to keep JavaScript in its possession, with the passive behavior up to now it may even automatically lose it. According to Deno’s communication, it is also fully prepared for the fight, as it has gathered enough evidence that JavaScript is now a common term widely used by developers and organizations without any connection to Oracle.
If the term JavaScript were to be released, in the future various related projects, companies, conferences, and essentially anyone could use it freely without having to fear possible litigation, which Oracle would probably win with valid protection, and the official specification of the standard could also include the name JavaScript instead of the current ECMAScript.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
