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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by _bxg1 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:59AM (#16867426)
I am primarily a JavaScript developer by trade and I literally didn't know it even originated at Oracle. And I'm sure I'm not alone. The trademark should be invalidated.
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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by phpnode on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:29AM (#16867655)
It didn't originate there, they acquired the rights to the name when they bought sun
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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by _bxg1 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:59PM (#16872317)
I knew that about Java but I didn't know the same was true of JavaScript
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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by collinmanderson on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:37PM (#16881096)
JavaScript originated at Netscape, not Sun. I assume Sun owned the trademark because it's so close to Java)
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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by davvolun on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:16PM (#16868551)
I believe they acquired the rights to 'Java' and they're arguing that gives them the rights to 'JavaScript'.

Which is fair-ish -- it should have never been named Javascript to begin with.

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Re:Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app by piva00 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:07AM (#16873933)
No, Oracle owns the "JavaScript" trademark, it's separate from "Java".

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_N...

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