{"id":512,"date":"2012-10-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=512"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:43:09","slug":"political-terminology-in-your-companys-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/political-terminology-in-your-companys-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Political terminology in your company name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Political terms such as Eidgenossenschaft, Bund, eidgen\u00f6ssisch, Kanton, kantonal, Gemeinde, kommunal or other terms that may be interpreted as such are forbidden to be any part of your company name insofar that it could give the impression that the company has a public or official function ( Art. 6 Wappenschutzgesetz; SR 232.21).<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/political-terminology-in-your-companys-name\/taxi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png?fit=430%2C280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"430,280\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Taxi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png?fit=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png?fit=430%2C280&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-519\" style=\"border-image: initial; float: left; margin: 8px 16px; border: 10px white;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png?resize=258%2C168\" width=\"258\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png?w=430&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Taxi.png?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This includes the same terms use in a company name in any of the national languages. If the first impression of the name does not insinuate an official function, the name should generally be acceptable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example of allowable use:<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant zu den sieben Kantonen (Restaurant to the Seven Cantons)<\/p>\n<p>Example of unacceptable use:<\/p>\n<p>Eidgen\u00f6ssische Taxi AG (Federal Taxi Inc.)<\/p>\n<p>Starting your business or changing the type of business entity that your company already has can be easy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/\">STARTUPS.CH<\/a> offers you professional consulting throughout the entirety of the process and thereafter. You can register for a consultation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/about\/kontakt\/\">here<\/a> or request free informational material.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startups.ch\/en\/\">STARTUPS TV<\/a> you can watch interesting reports on the topic of successful business starts, with plenty of information, tips and tricks to help you do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political terms such as Eidgenossenschaft, Bund, eidgen\u00f6ssisch, Kanton, kantonal, Gemeinde, kommunal or other terms that may be interpreted as such are forbidden to be any part of your company name insofar that it could give the impression that the company has a public or official function ( Art. 6 Wappenschutzgesetz; SR 232.21).<\/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":[3],"tags":[238,59,18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2590,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-8g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}