Article 8. Prohibition on the Use of Names Causing Misconception about Corporate Status

(Compare Article 21 of the former Commercial Code)

1. No person with inappropriate purposes may use a name or trade name which causes concern over misconceptions that they are another corporation,

2. Corporations which have business interests being violated by the use names or trade names in violation of the provisions of the previous paragraph, or for which there are concerns that their will be such violations, can demand, against the party so violating such business interests, or the party about whom there is such concerns of violations, that such violations be stopped or prevented.

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