September 11, 2018
SEC EN BANC CASE NO. 07-16-409
Change of Corporate Name
RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION, petitioner-appellee, vs. FLIGHT RAJA TRAVELS PRIVATE LIMITED, respondent-appellant.
DECISION
For the consideration of the En Banc is the Memorandum on Appeal filed on 20 July 2016 by FLIGHT RAJA TRAVELS PRIVATE LIMITED-PHILIPPINE BRANCH (FLIGHT RAJA TRAVELS), which seeks to reverse the Order dated 24 June 2016 of the Commission's OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC), as well as the Reply Memorandum filed on 15 August 2016 by RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION (RAJAH TRAVEL). The OGC directed FLIGHT RAJA TRAVELS to change its corporate name for being confusingly similar to that of RAJAH TRAVEL which has a prior right to use such name.
RELEVANT FACTS
FLIGHT RAJA TRAVELS is a foreign corporation, registered under the laws of India on 5 February 2007, with a License to Transact Business in the Philippines issued by the Commission on 8 June 2010. 1 Its purpose is "to provide online and offline travel solutions, package tours, hotel bookings, transfers to the travel agents and direct customers in the Philippine market, and...
