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4. In determining whether a name suggests that a registrant is related to another person, trust, partnership or group of persons in the cases mentioned in section 3 or leads to confusion with a name used by another person, trust, partnership or group of persons in Québec, the following criteria must be taken into account:
(1) the distinctiveness of each of the names and of each of their elements, their visual or phonetic similarity and the similarity between the images conjured up by the names; and
(2) the way in which each name is used.
In force: 2023-03-31
4. In determining whether a name suggests that a registrant is related to another person, trust, partnership or group of persons in the cases mentioned in section 3 or leads to confusion with a name used by another person, trust, partnership or group of persons in Québec, the following criteria must be taken into account:
(1) the distinctiveness of each of the names and of each of their elements, their visual or phonetic similarity and the similarity between the images conjured up by the names; and
(2) the way in which each name is used.
