Fictitious Names Registration

Arnold, Deputy Attorney General,

— You have asked us to construe the Act of June 28,1917, P. L. 645, as last amended by the Act of June 29, 1923, P. L. 979, which is commonly known as the Fictitious Names Act. You wish us to furnish you with a guide which will enable you to determine whether particular business names should be registered under the act.

Every case, of course, must stand on its own facts, but there is a sufficient similarity among many of them that will permit us to state some guiding principles and to illustrate them with examples of common types of business names that are…