NAC78.030. Distinguishing proposed name from name of existing business entity: Addition, omission or substitution of distinctive lettering or typeface, spaces, capitalized letters, punctuation marks, symbols or signs.

     1. The addition or omission of distinctive lettering or typeface, a space, a capitalized letter, a symbol, a sign, a punctuation mark or any other mark does not make the proposed name of a corporation distinguishable from the name of an existing business entity. For example:

     (a) “ABC, Inc.” is not distinguishable from “A.B.C., Inc.”;

     (b) “Intellico” is not distinguishable from “Intelli, Co.”;

     (c) “Motor-Mouth” is not distinguishable from “Motor Mouth”; and

     (d) “Nevada.com, Inc.” is not distinguishable from “Nevada Com, Inc.”

     2. The substitution of distinctive lettering or typeface, a space, a capitalized letter, a symbol, a sign, a punctuation mark or any other mark for a word does not make the proposed name of a corporation distinguishable from the name of an existing business entity. For example:

     (a) “A-plus” is not distinguishable from “A+”;

     (b) “Frustrated, Inc.” is not distinguishable from “Frustrated, Inc.”;

     (c) “Jones & Jones” is not distinguishable from “Jones and Jones”; and

     (d) “Marketing Ahead” is not distinguishable from “marketing ahead.”

     3. For the purposes of this section:

     (a) “Distinctive lettering or typeface” includes, without limitation, underscoring, italics, boldface, different font styles and different font sizes;

     (b) “Punctuation mark” includes, without limitation, a comma, a semicolon, a colon, a dash, a period, an exclamation point, a question mark, an apostrophe, single quotation marks, double quotation marks, parentheses, braces, brackets and any other similar mark; and

     (c) “Symbol” or “sign” includes, without limitation, #, $, %, ^, &, *, ~, <, >, +, -, =, _, / and \, and any other similar symbol or sign.

     (Added to NAC by Sec’y of State by R098-00, eff. 9-25-2000)