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GER: 'v.de AG' not Eligible for Company Name Registration

Corporate Law 

The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, hereinafter BGH) has recently ruled that the company name 'v.de AG' cannot be entered in the commercial register as it lacks the distinctive character required under Section 18(1) of the German ...

OGH on the misleading nature of a company name

Corporate Law 

If companies are located in the same place or the same municipality, the distinctiveness as a question of the concrete capacity to mislead is not to be examined according to Section 18 para 2 of the Austrian Commercial Code (Unternehmensgesetzbuch, U...

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