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by AceJohnny2 563 days ago
Context: "Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32709870
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diogocp 563 days ago
The real context is that Deno recently filed a petition to cancel the trademark: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92086835
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gnabgib 563 days ago
Yes, and Ryan Dahl (creator of Node and Deno), posted Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark on his website to market that petition.
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jey 563 days ago
The term “petition” is being used here in a technical legal sense. Colloquially we’d probably just call it a “lawsuit” challenging the JacvsScript trademark.
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thrdbndndn 563 days ago
That is where this doc directly came from, not the context (i.e. background) of this event.
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