FW: trademark filings for GCC?

[Mike Stump]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:47 PM, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> The US Trademark Office requires us to say when the mark was first 
> used in interstate commerce.  In this context I expect we are talking 
> about the first time somebody FTPd the software using the name GCC.  
> From your timeline I am guessing it is more or less July 31, 1999.

 From http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline we see that gcc 1.0 was 
May 23, 1987.  That would be my recommendation for the date.