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Yes, my error. But the reason I mentioned JavaScript is that Oracle happens to own the trademark on it: http://www.trademarkia.com/javascript-75026640.html

As far as I know, Extendscript does not use any Sun IP (it was originally written by a Michael Daumling), but there are numerous Sun patents specifically related to JavaScript interpreters, accessing APIs via JavaScript, and so forth, mostly from 2000-2003. JavaScript as a language came from Netscape, but it's hard to say exactly where their IP ends and Sun/Oracle IP begins.

So there is a little more to my remark than just the verbal similarity.



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