II. Names of sole proprietorships
1. Essential content1
1 A person operating a business as sole proprietor must use his family name, with or without first name, as the essential content of his business name.
2 If the business name contains other family names, it must indicate which one is the proprietor’s family name.2
3 The business name must not have any kind of suffix or ending which suggests constitution as a company or partnership.
1 Amended by No I 3 of the FA of 16 Dec. 2005 (Law on Limited Liability Companies and Amendments to the Law on Companies limited by Shares, Cooperatives, the Commercial Register and Business Names), in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 4791; BBl 2002 3148, 2004 3969).
2 Amended by No I of the FA of 25 Sept. 2015 (Law of Business Names), in force since 1 July 2016 (AS 2016 1507; BBl 2014 9305).
J. Voies de droit
1 Les décisions des offices du registre du commerce peuvent faire l’objet d’un recours dans les 30 jours qui suivent leur notification.
2 Chaque canton désigne un tribunal supérieur comme unique instance de recours.
3 Les autorités judiciaires cantonales communiquent immédiatement leurs décisions à l’office du registre du commerce et les notifient à l’autorité de haute surveillance de la Confédération.
