A name is not distinguishable on the records of the Secretary of State Business Registry office from the name of any other active organized entity, or from a reserved or registered name, if the names only differ in one or more of the following ways:

1. (1) Entity identifiers at the end of a name
2. (2) Punctuation or special characters
3. (3) Capitalization
4. (4) Spacing
5. (5) The presence or absence of an article, preposition, or conjunction, or a symbol for that word, including "a," "an," "and," "at," "by," "for," "in," "plus," "the," "to," and "with." Examples of symbols include "&," "@," and "+."
6. (6) An "s" is added or deleted to make the word plural, singular, or possessive.

Statutory/Other Authority

ORS 56, 58, 60, 62, 63, 65, 68, 70, 128, 183, 554 & 648

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 58.085, 60.094, 62.131, 63.094, 65.094, 68.735, 70.010, 128.580; 554.005 & 648.051

History

CORP 9-2010, f. 6-22-10, cert. ef. 7-1-10
CORP 4-2006, f. & cert. ef. 6-26-06