OAR 160-010-0013: Not Distinguishable on Record

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) Entity identifiers at the end of a name (2) Punctuation or special characters (3) Capitalization (4) Spacing (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) An "s" is added or deleted to make the word plural, singular, or possessive.