Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be

1 INC 74949 74949 17 26 C 1693 261265 59
2 LTD 35069 1001 25 27 M 1576 262841 59
3 LIMITED 20459 130477 29 28 L 1545 264386 60
4 GMBH 17490 147967 33 29 OY 1536 265922 60
5 CORPORATION 17348 165315 37 30 E 1446 267368 60
6 SA 9046 174361 39 31 NV 1376 268744 61
7 KG 7021 181382 41 32 R 1334 270078 61
8 LLC 6974 188356 42 33
AKTIENGESELLS
CHAFT 1174 271252 61
9 AG 6786 195142 44 34 W 1142 272394 61
10 SPA 5967 201109 45 35 D 1120 273514 62
11 CO 5875 206984 47 36 PETER 1120 274634 62
12 COMPANY 5806 212790 48 37 JOHN 1118 275752 62
13 SRL 5501 218291 49 38 PLC 1077 276829 62
14 5398 223689 50 39 SARL 1045 277874 63
15 CORP 5370 229059 52 40 H 1013 278887 63
16 BV 5165 234224 53 41 MICHAEL 988 279875 63
17 AB 4979 239203 54 42 DIPLING 957 280832 63
18 INCORPORATED 3671 242874 55 43 S 955 281787 64
19 AS 3168 246042 55 44 G 936 282723 64
20 MBH 2664 248706 56 45 LP 865 283588 64
21 A 2447 251153 57 46 INTERNATIONAL 865 284453 64
22 DR 2321 253474 57 47 ROBERT 814 285267 64
23 KAISHA 2208 255682 58 48 P 798 286065 64
24 J 2192 257874 58 49 UNIVERSITY 787 286852 65
25 ANONYME 1698 259572 58 50 F 778 287630 65
The top occurring word “INC” appears as last word in 74,949 names, the 50 th occurring word “F”
appears as the last word in 778 works. Together, these 50 words comprise 65% of all last words
of all names.
The missing word in place 14 means that there are 5,398 words containing only one word
(meaning containing no space). These names are supposed not to contain any legal form
indication (because nothing would be left of the name), and the last words (the only word) of
these names were not included in the last word index.
In the list, words can be found that clearly are legal form indications (“INC”, “LTD”, etc.), and
there are those that clearly are not legal form indications (“PETER”, “JOHN”).
Some of the words are typically found in many company names but are not really legal form
indications (“CORPORATION”, “COMPANY”).
All words having more than 1,000 occurrences are examined in detail, resulting in a list of 40
words, ranging from “INC” to “H” and covering 63% of all last words of all names.
For every word to be examined, the one but last and the second but last words were also
cleaned and indexed to examine the combination of the three last words, as some legal form
indications consist of more than one word or can be combined (e.g., the word “C” might not
seem to be a legal form until one notices that the last but one word is “L” and the second but
last word is “P”, resulting in “PLC” or Public Limited Company).
Table 14 contains all last words identified as (being part of) legal form indications after
examination of the last three word index.
Table 14: Last words identified as legal form indications
LAST WORD (CLEANED) LEGAL FORM
INC Incorporated
LTD Limited
LIMITED Limited
GMBH Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
SA Société Anonyme, Sociedad Anónima, …
KG Kommanditgesellschaft
LLC Limited Liability Company
AG Aktiengesellschaft
SPA Società Per Azioni
SRL Società a Responsabilità Limitata
BV Besloten vennootschap
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