FW: trademark filings for GCC?

[Jim Wilson]

Eben Moglen wrote:
> relation to our software.  I have no reason to believe that there are
> marks on the basis of which the office would deny our registration,
> but we will make our very substantial priority clear.

There is a company called GreenHills Software (http://www.ghs.com), with 
headquarters in Santa Barbara California, that has a C compiler.  They 
sometimes refer to it as GCC.  They refer to our compiler as GNU GCC. 
They have been around for 20 years, though I don't know when they first 
released a C compiler, or when they first started refering to it as GCC.

Jim