- Unique Name – The name should be unique and should not be similar to any registered trademark
- Not too general – The name should not be too general. The example of a general name is Silk Sarees Pvt Ltd.
- Names not allowed – Abbreviations, adjectives and generic words are rejected. The name should also not resemble that the company is associated to government body in any way.
Names not allowed
Names which resemble too nearly with the name of an existing company.
- A name applied for shall be deemed to resemble too nearly with the name of an existing company, if, and only if, after comparing the name applied for with the name of an existing company by disregarding the matters set out in sub-rule (2), the names are same.
- The following matters are to be disregarded:
- the words like Private, Pvt, Pvt., (P), OPC Ltd., IFSC Limited, IFSC Pvt. Limited, Producer Limited, Limited, Unlimited, Ltd, Ltd., LLP, Limited Liability Partnership, company, and company, & co, & co., co., co, corporation, corp, corpn, corp, group;
- whether a word is in the plural or singular number in one or both names;
Illustrations
- Green Technology Ltd. is same as Greens Technology Ltd. and Greens Technologies
- Pratap Technology Ltd. is the same as Prataps Technology Ltd. and Prataps Technologies
- type and case of letters, spacing between letters, punctuation marks and special characters used in one or both names;
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- ABC is same as A.B.C. Ltd. and A B C Ltd.
(i) TeamWork Ltd. is same as Team@Work Ltd. and Team-Work Ltd.
- use of different tenses in the names;
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Ascend Solutions Ltd. is same as Ascended Solutions Ltd. and Ascending Solutions Ltd.
- using different phonetic spellings including use of misspelled words of an expression;
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- Chemtech is same as Chemtec Ltd., Chemtek Ltd., Cemtech Ltd., Cemtek Ltd., Kemtech Ltd., and Kemtek Ltd.
- Bee Kay Ltd is same as BK Ltd, Be Kay , B Kay Ltd., Bee K Ltd.,
B.K. Ltd. and Beee Kay Ltd.
- whether one or both names includes a host name such as ‘www’ or a domain extension such as ‘net’, ‘org’, ‘dot’ or ‘com’;
- the addition of commonly used prefixes, including salutations, before an existing name such as New, Modern, Nav, Shri, Sri, Shree, Sree, Om, Jai, Sai, Hari, , Mrs., Ms., Dr., Prof. or any other such commonly used prefixes;
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- Vijay Corporation Ltd is same as Shree Vijay Corporation Ltd, Modern Vijay Corporation Ltd and Vijay Corporation Ltd.
- Manjushree Industries limited is not the same as Manju Industries limited.
- Vijay Corporation Ltd is not the same as Deep Vijay Corporation
- The order of words in the names;
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- Ravi Builders and Contractors is same as Ravi Contractors and Builders Ltd.
- Ravi Builders and Contractors Limited is not the same as Ravi Shankar
Builders and Contractors limited
- The use of the definite or indefinite article in the names;
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Congenial Tours Ltd. is same as A Congenial Tours Ltd. and The Congenial Tours Ltd.
- a slight variation in the spelling of the two names including a grammatical variation thereof;
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Color Technologies Ltd. is same as Colour Technologies Ltd as there is a slight variation in the spelling.
- complete translation or transliteration, and not part thereof, of an existing name, in Hindi or in English
Illustrations
- National Electricity Corporation Ltd. is same as Rashtriya Vidyut Nigam
- Hike Construction is not the same as Hike Nirman Ltd.
- Addition of the name of a place to an existing name, which did not contain the name of any place;
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- If Salvage Technologies is an existing name, it is same as Salvage Technologies Delhi Ltd and Salvage Delhi Technologies Ltd.
- Retro Pharmaceuticals Ranchi is not the same as Retro Pharmaceuticals Chennai Ltd.
- addition or deletion of words like global, international or any other word which symbolizes the geographical reach of the company, in an existing name;
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- If Hardnut Finance Ltd is an existing name, it is the same as Hardnut Finance Pan-India Ltd or Hardnut Finance International
- If Glory Construction International is an existing name, it is the same as Glory Construction Ltd. but not the same as Glory Construction Global Ltd.
- addition or deletion of numerals in an existing name;
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- If Thunder Services Ltd is an existing name, it is same as Thunder11 Services
- If Style Garments11 is an existing name, it is same as Style Garments Ltd.
Provided that clauses (f) to (h) and clauses (k) to (n) shall not be disregarded while comparing the names, if a no objection by way of a Board resolution has been provided by an existing company.