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blagie a day ago

No, it wouldn't. Simple use of JavaScript somewhere isn't enough for this.

Oracle would need to show vigorous trademark enforcement. I use 'JavaScript' generically, with no reference to Oracle or a trademark, and have never heard from an Oracle lawyer. I had no idea who the current owner of the trademark was.

I bet 95% of people who use the term have no idea it has any connection to Oracle's legal department.

At this point, there are probably millions of .js files out there. If Oracle wished to enforce all of these moving to .es for ECMAScript, they would have needed to start that process a long, long time ago.

Oracle's own documentation uses this term generically:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/apex/22.1/aexjs/t...

To the contrary, a use like this doesn't support the trademark, but pretty much invalidates it entirely.

toast0 21 hours ago | parent [-]

> No, it wouldn't. Simple use of JavaScript somewhere isn't enough for this.

> Oracle would need to show vigorous trademark enforcement.

It sounds like the current approach is to challenge the registration based on abandonment by non-use. The defense against a challenge of non-use is an example of the trademark being used (by the holder or a licensee) in trade.

A challenge based on abandonment by non-enforcement is also possible, but non-use is easier to show.