Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app

Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by mathw on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:51AM (#16865783)

I believe trademark laws require trademark holders to actively enforce them or they run the risk of losing the trademark when it comes up in something that actually matters.

Although really Oracle should have the sense to see the state of the landscape and just drop it. It's become a generic term - in fact, it always was.

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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by ac2u on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:10AM (#16867507)

If it's the case that by not going after the user of JavaScript, they would be putting their Java trademark in peril, then perhaps a solution would be for oracle to put out a notice putting the term JavaScript under a creative commons commerical non-attribution license.

That way, they keep everything 'java' protected, without the poor PR of targeting the use of the term 'JavaScript'.

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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by lvh on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:59PM (#16878282)

Trademark is not the same thing as copyright. A work might be affected by both, but "put it under a CC license" does nothing to make the trademark freely usable. To make the trademark freely usable, they simply have to abandon it or create a liberal trademark policy like Mozilla's or Wikimedia's (or even CCs).

(IANAL.)

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