2. The name of a company is identical to the name of another person, partnership or group(1) even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a punctuation mark such as a period (.), a question mark (?), an exclamation point (!), a comma (,), a semi-colon (;), a colon (:), an ellipsis (…), parentheses ( ), square brackets [ ], quotation marks (“ ”), a dash (—), or a slash (/);
(2) even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, an article (au, aux, de, de la, du, des, le, la, les, un, une) or a possessive adjective (mon, ton, son, ma, ta, sa, mes, tes, ses, notre, votre, leur, nos, vos, leurs);
(3) even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a preposition (à, avec, chez, dans, de, hors, par, pour, sans…) or a conjunction (et) or its symbol (&);
(4) even if it has, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a different spelling, but has the same pronunciation or sign (such as +);
(5) even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a number in Arabic or Roman numerals having the same value;
(6) even if it has, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a different syntax;
(7) even if it has, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a different indication of the juridical form;
(8) even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, an abbreviation, an aphaeresis (such as “pitaine” for “capitaine”) or an apocope (such as “télé” for “télévision”); or
(9) even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a word that has no determinant nature, such as “association”, “compagnie”, “entreprise”, “personne morale” or “société”, or an abbreviation thereof.