       
Limited Liability Company Name Checks
It is important to check that the name you want is acceptable to Companies House
before you complete the company formation documents.
Briefly, the restrictions are that:
- you cannot register the
same name as another company;
- the use of certain words is restricted; and
- names likely to cause offence are not allowed.
It is also important to carry out a company name check to
determine whether your chosen name is similar
to any other company name If your chosen name is too like another name, an
objection could be made within the 12 months following the incorporation of your
company and you could be
directed by the Secretary of State to change the company's name.
Click here to visit the Companies House site
to check other
company
names
already on the register.
Company names cannot be reserved and formation applications
are not processed strictly in order of time or date of receipt. In the unlikely
event that we receive more than one application to register the same name, only
one will be registered. The second will be refused because the name would then
already be on the names index. There can be no guarantee which application will
be processed first. In general, company incorporation applications delivered
electronically are processed more quickly than other applications delivered on
paper.
In addition if there is a trade mark registration or
application for or including a trade mark which is identical or similar to the
company name you have chosen you may face legal action for a trade mark
infringement. You can check the trade marks register at The Patent Office before
registering a name at Companies House. For further advice, including how to
search the trade marks register, contact The Patent Office or view their
website at
www.patent.gov.uk.
Limited Liability Company Name disclosure requirements
Every limited liability company must paint or affix its
company name
on the outside of every office or place in which its business is carried on,
even if it is a director's home. The name must be kept painted or affixed and it
must be both conspicuous and legible
The limited liability company must state its company name,
registered number and place of registration in legible lettering, on the
following:
- all the company's business letters and order forms;
- all its notices and other official publications;
- all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements,
cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by, or on
behalf of, the company;
- all its bills of parcels, invoices, receipts and letters
of credit.
A limited liability company does not have to state the
directors' names on its business letters but, if it chooses to do so it must
state the names of all its directors. In other words a limited liability company
cannot be selective about which directors' names it shows - it must show all of
them or none of them.
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