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Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript
Oracle, it's time to free the JavaScript trademark. Join us in asking Oracle to release the trademark, and helping us file a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with the USPTO.
The most recent , filed with the USPTO in 2019, references nodejs.org(a project created by Ryan Dahl, the author of this letter) and Oracle’s JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET). This committee includes participants from all major browsers, like Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla’s Firefox, as well as representatives from server-side JavaScript runtimes like Node.js and Deno. It’s time for the USPTO to end the JavaScript trademark and recognize it as a generic name for the world’s most popular programming language, which has multiple implementations across the industry.
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