Registering a Limited Company to Protect a Business Name

If you want to protect a business name that you are currently using, or you simply want to prohibit another company from using or registering a particular name for any other reason, you can set a UK limited company for these very purposes. No two companies are legally permitted to be registered under the same name, nor can they register names that are so similar to one another they are likely to cause confusion, unless they are part of the same group.…