Société anonyme

This designation is pertinent to quite a large number of French firms within our data of patent registration. We are uncertain as to how frequently this status was at play, without necessarily being mentioned consistently. That is, we have cases in which a specific patent mentions this designation, and then another, quite close, mentions the same firm without specific reference to this particular corporate status. We have quite a few company page names titled "Société Anonyme … ". In quite a few other cases, the legal designation is mentioned immediately after the corporate name.

It has to do with, among other things possibly, the ability of a firm to trade shares and enter alliances with other domestic or foreign firms.

We are interested in this designation, per se, in relation to other French designations, and relative to other national and international designations. Particular legal characteristics differentiating the Société anonyme from the Société générale designation are yet to be clarified. This latter phrase, "Société Générale", is presently, at the time of our research, one of the primary French-based banking houses in the world , though said banking house is also itself legally classified as a "Société anonyme", due to its international scope. There are multiple instances, contemporary to us, of other banking houses using the phrase "Société Générale" within their actual corporate names, per se, and there are multiple instances within our data of the phrase being used in the name of corporations focused on aviation, as such, related manufacture and likely finance. This usage of "générale" may be suggestive of scope without being a per se legal designation.

See Maurice Leblanc for some hints on the applicability of this usage.

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