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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 actu
by mathw 8y ago
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.
- ac2u 8y agoIf 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'.
- lvh 8y agoTrademark 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.)