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• Naming your business: using ‘accredited’ or related words

  Guidance on the use of the sensitive words accreditation, accredit, accredited and accrediting, in a company, Limited Liability Partnership or business name.

  • Updated: 14 September 2023
• Company Names Tribunal

  We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...

  • Updated: 15 April 2021
• Incorporation and names
  • Updated: 15 July 2024
• Company Names Tribunal: practice direction

  The Company Names Tribunal practice direction provides the framework for the management of proceedings brought before the Tribunal.

  • Updated: 16 January 2017
• Unacceptable trade marks

  Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.

  • Updated: 16 May 2014
• Protected geographical food and drink names: UK GI schemes

  Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.

  • Updated: 8 March 2024
• Company Names Tribunal decision: HBK Investments Limited

  Decision for applicant HBK Investments L.P. against registration number 14557129, applicant successful.

  • Updated: 16 April 2025
• Company Names Tribunal decision: Perfect Match Co., Ltd

  Decision for applicant Match Group Americas, LLC against registration number 15738909, applicant successful.

  • Updated: 10 April 2025
• Naming of veterinary medicinal products

  Criteria applied by the VMD for accepting and agreeing the invented name of veterinary medicinal products.

  • Updated: 12 December 2024
• Extended producer responsibility for packaging: who is affected and what to do

  How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

  • Updated: 3 April 2025