Distinguishing proposed name from name of existing business entity: Addition, omission or substitution of distinctive lettering or typeface, spaces, capitalized letters, punctuation marks, symbols or signs.

1. The addition or omission of distinctive lettering or typeface, a space, a capitalized letter, a symbol, a sign, a punctuation mark or any other mark does not make the proposed name of a corporation distinguishable from the name of an existing business entity. For example: (a) “ABC, Inc.” is not distinguishable from “A.B.C., Inc.”; (b) “Intellico” is not distinguishable from “Intelli, Co.”; (c) “Motor-Mouth” is not distinguishable from “Motor Mouth”; and (d) “Nevada.com, Inc.” is not distinguishable from “Nevada Com, Inc.” 2. The substitution of distinctive lettering or typeface, a space, a capitalized letter, a symbol, a sign, a punctuation mark or any other mark for a word does not make the proposed name of a corporation distinguishable from the name of an existing business entity. For example: (a) “A-plus” is not distinguishable from “A+”; (b) “Frustrated, Inc.” is not distinguishable from “ Frustrated, Inc. ”; (c) “Jones & Jones” is not distinguishable from “Jones and Jones”; and (d) “Marketing Ahead” is not distinguishable from “marketing ahead.” 3. For the purposes of this section: (a) “Distinctive lettering or typeface” includes, without limitation, underscoring, italics, boldface, different font styles and different font sizes; (b) “Punctuation mark” includes, without limitation, a comma, a semicolon, a colon, a dash, a period, an exclamation point, a question mark, an apostrophe, single quotation marks, double quotation marks, parentheses, braces, brackets and any other similar mark; and (c) “Symbol” or “sign” includes, without limitation, #, $, %, ^, &, *, ~, <, >, +, -, =, _, / and \, and any other similar symbol or sign.