Regulations Governing Review of Applications for Reservation of Corporate Names and Business Scopes Article 7

Where two companies or a company and a limited partnership are with different specially given names, their corporate names shall be deemed different.Where corporate names indicating different categories of business or other distinguishable characters, even though they share the same specially given name, such corporate names shall be deemed as different.The distinguishable characters set forth in the preceding paragraph shall not be any of the following:1. Characters that identify the type of organization, limited partnership, district/area names, foreign country names, hall, mark, trading, shop or association.2. Characters prior to the specially given name and indicating new, good, old, big/large, small, true, genuine, original, pure, real, authentic or orthodox.3. If the names of two companies or the names of a company and a limited partnership are with the same specially given names and the same category of business, the characters come thereafter indicating the organization or nature of the business, such as enterprise, business, business development, business promotion, industrial field, industry, commerce, merchant, firm, business concern or business entity.
中文原文 公司名稱及業務預查審核準則第7條
二公司或公司與有限合夥之特取名稱不相同者,其名稱為不相同。
名稱中標明不同業務種類或可資區別之文字者,縱其特取名稱相同,其名稱視為不相同。
前項所稱可資區別之文字,不含下列之文字:
一、公司組織種類、有限合夥、地區名、外國國名、堂、記、行、號或社之文字。
二、特取名稱前所標明之新、好、老、大、小、真、正、原、純、真正、純正、正港、正統之文字。
三、二公司或公司與有限合夥名稱中標明之特取名稱及業務種類相同者,於業務種類之後,所標明之企業、實業、展業、興業、產業、工業、商事、商業、商社、商行、事業等表明營業組織或事業性質之文字。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.