I apologize, I originally wrote in haste and did not clearly state what I was suggesting.
Specifically, while it is typical for a given jurisdiction (state, etc) to require a name to be unique, it is typically not a requirement for it to not be so unique that it can not be confused for another name. For example, I have seen businesses registered with punctuation and without; I have also seen non-latin characters in use in business names this clearly has the potential to introduce name confusion. Ryan On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:55 PM, Matthew Hardeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Ryan Hurst via dev-security-policy < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> re: Most of the government offices responsible for approving entity >> creation are concerned first and foremost with ensuring that a unique name >> within their jurisdiction is chosen >> >> What makes you say that, most jurisdictions have no such requirement. >> >> > This was anecdotal, based on my own experience with formation of various > limited liability entities in several US states. > > Even my own state of Alabama, for example, (typically regarded as pretty > backwards) has strong policies and procedures in place for this. > > In Alabama, formation of a limited liability entity whether a Corporation > or LLC, etc, begins with a filing in the relevant county probate court of > an Articles of Incorporation, Articles or Organization, trust formation > documents, or similar. As part of the mandatory filing package for those > document types, a name reservation certificate (which will be validated by > the probate court) from the Alabama Secretary of State will be required. > The filer must obtain those directly from the appropriate office of the > Alabama Secretary of State. (It can be done online, with a credit card. > The system enforces entity name uniqueness.) > _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
