Will Oracle lose the JavaScript trademark by the end of 2026?
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Oracle currently owns the JavaScript trademark.
- Over the years various parties have requested that they give up the trademark, most recently in the form of an open letter (https://javascript.tm) signed by prominent members of the JavaScript community including Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript), Ryan Dahl (creator of Node/Deno), Michael Ficarra (an editor of the JavaScript specification), Isaac Z. Schlueter (creator of NPM) and others.
- If Oracle does not comply, they are intending to file with a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the grounds of abandonment and possibly genericization.
- This market resolves YES if, before the end of 2026, Oracle no longer owns the JavaScript trademark.
- It doesn't matter how this happens: this could be due to them voluntarily releasing it, it being cancelled by the USPTO, them transferring it to a non-profit, or even selling it to another company, as long as Oracle Corporation are no longer the owners.
- Otherwise, it resolves NO at the end of 2026.
