Deno, a company offering a JavaScript runtime, filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009 for $7.4 billion, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Java was “the single most important software asset we have ever acquired.” Two months later ...

Some prominent figures in the JavaScript community have formally asked the USPTO to cancel Oracle's ownership of the ...

Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert.… Big Red announced a new licensing regime for the popular ...

JavaScript is the name of the most popular and widely-used programming language. Due to a series of historical absurdities, such as the decision to name it after Java, a completely different language, ...

But that was quite a while ago. Business has plenty of other languages and Java could have fallen by the wayside, and it's to Oracle's credit that Java remains popular and highly relevant today ...

Deno Land has petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to strip Oracle of its ownership of the JavaScript trademark, accusing Oracle of trademark abandonment and fraud.

Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past. “ ...

Oracle’s change on pricing for the Java standard edition (SE) license by total employee count is likely to rile customers that have a fraction of employees who work with Java, Oracle partners ...

The court ruled six to two in favour of Google. At issue was whether Google's use of Oracle's Java API - a widely-used "building block" for programmers - counted as "fair use" under US copyright law.