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4.2.3

Name of claimant(cont'd)

II.

Variant form of claimant's name(cont'd)

c.

Corporate subsidiary or department(cont'd)

Examples; (cont'd)

(2)

In notice:

Wacky Record Corp., a subsidiary of Black and Blue Music, Inc.

In application:

Black and Blue Music, Inc.

Practice:

Annotate

(3)

In notice:

Titanic Film Corp.

In application:

Gigantic Pictures, Inc.

Practice:

Question the variance

d.

Abbreviations, initials, trade names, and other variants

1.

An application stating only the full name of the copyright claimant will be questioned or rejected when the notice contains only the claimant initials, a sharply abbreviated form of his name, or a different designation which might be considered his trade name.

2.

Registration will be refused when it is apparent on the face of the application, or it develops from correspondence, or otherwise that the desig­nation in the notice is not the claimant's trade name and is not capable of identifying him to the public.

(a)

Under ordinary circumstances an application in the name of an individual will be re­jected outright when only the individual initials appear in the notice.

(b)

In determining whether the designation in the notice can be considered the claimant's."name," the most important factor is whether the designation is capable of identifying the claimant to the public generally as distinguished from the trade itself or from the specialized public in the trade. However, where it does not fly in the face of common sense, the applicant's