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Sun used to go after companies using "Java" in their names. Even events haven't been spared: Javapolis (in Belgium), where even Gosling came to speak, got renamed "Devoxx" due to trademark issues.

I somehow doubt that the french person who registered java-0day.com is in compliance.

The idea isn't bad but it's a bad sad that everything is put together: mixing Java applets exploits with server-side exploit with regulard client-side / Java desktop exploits.

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A trademark doesn't give you exclusive rights over all use of the mark. You can use it to prevent others from implying their products are associated with yours, as was presumably the case for Javapolis, but it doesn't give you the legal right to prevent others from criticizing your product.

If they forced to change the domain name, a hexy alternative might be: BADC0FFEE

Nice pun. For those who don't know, Java took his name from a Café's name or something like that.

Java tooks it's name from the Java Coffee bean, which the original team slightly overindulged in. I imagine it went like this. "What should we call this?" one of the devs looks around "Java"

There's a bunch of unaffiliated sites with "java" in their domain name, http://www.javaranch.com/ for one.

I think the difference is when you try and trade commercially using someone elses trademark.

You forgot that JavaPolis first renamed themselves to Javoxx, thinking that would save them. But no. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2008/09...

Could this apply to non-IT related companies? "Java" is a name of a region in Indonesia to begin with, what about companies dealing with tourism or local products such as coffee or fabrics from that region?

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