Treatment of Company Name

The rules on ‘same as’ will be stricter. For example, we will disregard a number of matters if they appear at the end of the name and they are preceded by a full stop including “GB”, “services”, and “com”.

You may register a name that is the same as another in the registrar’s index if the company belongs or is to belong to the same group as the company already on the register and a written consent from the latter is sent to us.

You can find more details on the Company and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2008 at www.berr.gov.uk