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Experience Level: Intermediate
Estimated project duration: 1 day or less
General information for the business: Formation of a company using a sensitive word in the name. Permission sought from BIS
Industry: Business
Legal topic: Business setup
Description of legal work: Hi,
Companies House have referred me to Business, Innovation and Skills to request permission to use the word "Accredited" in the formation of my new business name.
I have sent a request and they have sent me a standard response which cites a regulation which I do not feel is relevant. I have spoken to the Federation of Small Businesses legal advice line and they have suggested that I challenge them.
I have made some notes and made a rough draft of a response but I was wondering if someone on here could take my notes and formalise my response and maybe add some clout to it by structuring it in a style of a legal professional.
I would like to send this as soon as possible. Ideally on the 7th of August. So if anyone feels that they could easily formulate this letter from their response and my notes then please submitted a proposal.
Extra notes:
The word is "Accredited"
they are citing this reg:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:0030:0047:en:PDF
They are saying that if i incorporate a business which uses the word Accredited that it is potentially misleading. I do not believe it is and i believe that they should grant permission for me to use the word.
My case should be structure around:
1. the scope of our business activity does not fall under the activites outlined in the regulation and the attestation of the word accreditaion. We are not intending to carry out the activies of a national accreditation body (in the UK this is UKAS) - we are not misleading anyone, or competing with UKAS.
2. The word accreditation is widely used as we intend to use it. It would actually be misleading to not use the word accreditation in our descriptions so why not in the company name.
3. how far does the attestation go? does it prohibit the use of the word in a trading name of a company registered under a different name. Does it prohibit the use of the word in a slogan? How far can they go to claim that we are misleading consumers even though our activity does not fall under the scope of the regulation.
See the attached response from BIS and my notes
Industry: Business
Legal topic: Business setup
Description of legal work: Hi,
Companies House have referred me to Business, Innovation and Skills to request permission to use the word "Accredited" in the formation of my new business name.
I have sent a request and they have sent me a standard response which cites a regulation which I do not feel is relevant. I have spoken to the Federation of Small Businesses legal advice line and they have suggested that I challenge them.
I have made some notes and made a rough draft of a response but I was wondering if someone on here could take my notes and formalise my response and maybe add some clout to it by structuring it in a style of a legal professional.
I would like to send this as soon as possible. Ideally on the 7th of August. So if anyone feels that they could easily formulate this letter from their response and my notes then please submitted a proposal.
Extra notes:
The word is "Accredited"
they are citing this reg:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:0030:0047:en:PDF
They are saying that if i incorporate a business which uses the word Accredited that it is potentially misleading. I do not believe it is and i believe that they should grant permission for me to use the word.
My case should be structure around:
1. the scope of our business activity does not fall under the activites outlined in the regulation and the attestation of the word accreditaion. We are not intending to carry out the activies of a national accreditation body (in the UK this is UKAS) - we are not misleading anyone, or competing with UKAS.
2. The word accreditation is widely used as we intend to use it. It would actually be misleading to not use the word accreditation in our descriptions so why not in the company name.
3. how far does the attestation go? does it prohibit the use of the word in a trading name of a company registered under a different name. Does it prohibit the use of the word in a slogan? How far can they go to claim that we are misleading consumers even though our activity does not fall under the scope of the regulation.
See the attached response from BIS and my notes
Adam K.
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