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JavaScript(tm) Trademark Update

June 27, 2025 

  * [ry]Ryan Dahl

  * #FreeJavaScript

On June 18, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed our
fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.

That claim alleged Oracle knowingly misled the USPTO in its 2019
renewal by submitting a screenshot of the Node.js website to show use
of the "JavaScript" trademark. As the creator of Node.js, I find that
especially offensive. Node.js was never an Oracle product or brand.
Oracle didn't create it, didn't run it, and wasn't authorized to use
it to prop up its trademark. That they reached for a third-party open
source site suggests they had no better proof--and knew it.

But fraud was never the heart of this case.

We're not amending the fraud claim. Doing so would delay the case by
months, and our focus is on the claims that matter most: genericness
and abandonment. Everyone uses "JavaScript" to describe a
language--not a brand. Not an Oracle product. Just the world's most
popular programming language.

The case now proceeds quickly.

On August 7, Oracle must respond to every paragraph of our
cancellation petition--either admitting or denying our claims about
genericness and abandonment. I'm eager to see what they challenge.

Discovery begins September 6.

Everyone knows JavaScript isn't an Oracle product--and 19,550 people
at javascript.tm agree (at the time of writing). This trademark
doesn't serve the public, the industry, or the purpose of trademark
law. It's just wrong.

If we win this cancellation--or if Oracle does the right thing and
releases the trademark--JavaScript will be free. No more (tm) symbols. No
more licensing fears. Just the name of the programming language that
powers the web, belonging to everyone who uses it.

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