{"id":9304,"date":"2020-12-24T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vila.es\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2021-01-07T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T09:14:55","slug":"corporate-name-phonetic-and-graphic-similarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vila.es\/en\/corporate\/corporate-name-phonetic-and-graphic-similarity\/","title":{"rendered":"CORPORATE NAME &#8211; PHONETIC AND GRAPHIC SIMILARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the resolution issued by the General Directorate of Registries and Notaries (Direcci\u00f3n General de Registros y Notariado\u00a0 \u2013 \u201cDGRN\u201d)\u00a0dated 18<sup>th<\/sup> December 2019, which was published in the official Spanish government gazette of 12<sup>th<\/sup> March 2020, the company name \u201cClorawfila\u201d is admissible in spite of the existence of another company named \u201cClorofila\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to this matter, the Central Commercial Registry refused the application filed for the corporate name \u201cClorawfila\u201d Limited Liability Company on the grounds that it has a phonetic and graphic similarity (article 408 of the Commercial Registry Regulations) to the already-registered corporate name \u201cClorofila Sociedad An\u00f3nima Laboral\u201d. The Central Commercial Registry states in its report that in order to determine whether or not identity exists between the corporate names, the indications regarding the company form will be disregarded, and that both names \u201care graphically expressed in a similar way (they only differ in respect of two letters), and they have a noticeable similarity in phonetic pronunciation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the DGRN revokes the registrar\u2019s\u00a0 statement of invalidity with the following explanation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn terms of corporate names, the concept of identity must be considered to have been extended to what is called &#8220;quasi-identity&#8221; or &#8220;substantial identity&#8221;. &#8220;This possibility of broadening the notion of identity cannot prevent the ultimate aim of the prohibition on identity from being taken into account: to identify with a certain degree of certainty the subject responsible for certain legal relationships&#8221;. Thus, the Spanish system &#8220;prohibits the identity, whether absolute or substantial, of names, but not mere similarity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus when detecting identity, &#8220;if the interpretation of the regulatory standards, especially those that incorporate concepts coated in a greater indeterminacy, such as those relating to &#8220;generic or accessory&#8221; terms or expressions, to signs or particles &#8220;of little significance&#8221; or to words of &#8220;notorious phonetic similarity&#8221; this does not have to be carried out in a restrictive manner, on the other hand, there is no room for great laxity, or the consideration that the simultaneous application of two or more of those criteria included in article 408 of the Commercial Registry Regulations is not possible. The difficult balance is to be struck in the qualification of the identity of the names, so that the interpretation and application of such regulations, in accordance with the teleological criterion mentioned, must be tempered to the circumstances of each case&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the light of the foregoing considerations regarding the case in question,\u00a0 the contested classification cannot be upheld, given that even if there is a certain graphic similarity between the terms \u201cChlorawfila\u201d and \u201cChlorofila\u201d, and even if the Commercial Registry Regulations provide that the indications relating to the company form are to be disregarded when determining whether or not identity exists between two corporate names, the fact remains that the outcome from a minimal grammatical difference is that the names are clearly distinguishable for the purposes of the legal requirement of identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mika Tsuyuki<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vil\u00e1 Abogados<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information, please contact:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"mailto:va@vila.es\">va@vila.es<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>24<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the resolution issued by the General Directorate of Registries and Notaries (Direcci\u00f3n General de Registros y Notariado\u00a0 \u2013 \u201cDGRN\u201d)\u00a0dated 18th December 2019, which was published in the official Spanish government gazette of 12th March 2020, the company name \u201cClorawfila\u201d is admissible in spite of the existence of another company named \u201cClorofila\u201d. 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