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Discussion on: Did you know that Oracle owns the trademark to Javascript?

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Dustin King • Edited

In my opinion it's been Kleenexed. It's a formerly branded term that has taken on generic meaning, therefore (I think it could be argued, though I'm not a lawyer so don't quote me on this) the trademark is invalid.

I don't know if that's actually true of Kleenex. I just call them tissues. However, I've never used JavaScript to refer to a product of Sun Microsystems or Oracle.