{"id":114,"date":"2009-10-15T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=114"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:46:31","slug":"is-it-possible-to-translate-the-firm-name-sole-proprietorship-general-partnership-gmbh-ag-into-a-foreign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/is-it-possible-to-translate-the-firm-name-sole-proprietorship-general-partnership-gmbh-ag-into-a-foreign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to translate the firm name (sole proprietorship, general partnership, GmbH, AG) into a foreign language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commercial Registry Decree as well as the competent authority have set up a number of rules which are to be abided by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A foreign-language version can only be registered if written in roman alphabet.<\/li>\n<li>The content of all versions must be congruent!<\/li>\n<li>Fancy names or denominations which combine different notions resulting in a fancy description cannot be translated.<\/li>\n<li>Sequences of letters which are not shortcuts cannot be translated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You are free to translate only the legal form or the whole name (if allowed). However, you have to chose whether to translate all versions or none of them.<\/p>\n<p>If you have further questions, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/\">STARTUPS.CH<\/a> team will be glad to help you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commercial Registry Decree as well as the competent authority have set up a number of rules which are to be abided by: A foreign-language version can only be registered if written in roman alphabet. The content of all versions must be congruent! Fancy names or denominations which combine different notions resulting in a fancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[34,36,13,18,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1728,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-1Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}