§ 17-16-1506 — Corporate name of foreign corporation

Wyoming § 17-16-1506

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 17: Corporations, Partnerships and Associations
• Ch. 16: WYOMING BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT
• Art. 15: FOREIGN CORPORATIONS

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(a) If the corporate name of a foreign corporation does
not satisfy the requirements of W.S. 17-16-401, the foreign
corporation to obtain or maintain a certificate of authority to
transact business in this state may use a fictitious name to
transact business in this state if its real name is unavailable
and it delivers to the secretary of state for filing a copy of
the resolution of its board of directors, certified by its
secretary, adopting the fictitious name.
(b) Except as authorized by subsections (c) and (d) of
this section, the corporate name, including a fictitious name,
of a foreign corporation shall not be the same as, or
deceptively similar to the name of any trademark or service mark
registered in this state and shall be distinguishable upon the
records of the secretary of state from other business names as
required by W.S. 17-16-401.
(c) A foreign corporation may apply to the secretary of
state for authorization to use in this state the name of another
corporation, incorporated or authorized to do business in this
state, that is not distinguishable in accordance with the
provisions of W.S. 17-16-401(c).
(i) Reserved;
(ii) Reserved.
(d) A foreign corporation may use in this state the name,
including the fictitious name, of another domestic or foreign
corporation that is used in this state if the other corporation
is incorporated or authorized to transact business in this state
and the foreign corporation has:
(i) Merged with the other corporation; or
(ii) Been formed by reorganization of the other
corporation; or
(iii) Acquired all or substantially all of the
assets, including the corporate name, of the other corporation;
or
(iv) Repealed By Laws 1996, ch. 80, § 3.
(v) Has received the written consent of the other
corporation, which written consent also sets forth a description
of a proposed merger, consolidation, dissolution, amendment to
articles of incorporation or other intended corporate action
which establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the
secretary of state that the coexistence of two (2) corporations
using the same name will not continue for more than one hundred
twenty (120) days.
(e) If a foreign corporation authorized to transact
business in this state changes its corporate name to one that
does not satisfy the requirements of W.S. 17-16-401, it may not
transact business in this state under the changed name until it
adopts a name satisfying the requirements of W.S. 17-16-401 and
obtains an amended certificate of authority under W.S.