RPT?

[lurch]

Raspberry Pi Trading isn't included in the wordlist yet... I see that https://custompc.raspberrypi.org/about (and https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/about ) uses "Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd." but https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/ uses "Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd" and https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/ uses "Raspberry Pi (Trading) Limited" ?

[ghost]

Per Companies House, the legal name of the company is Raspberry Pi (Trading) Limited. Limited companies registered in England & Wales (and elsewhere) are permitted to abbreviate Limited to Ltd. (But not Ltd.).

This only matters when referring to the legal name of the company. If you've gone to the trouble of adding Ltd on the end, then you should get it right and put the parentheses in.

[ghost]

There's also a related problem with the use of the phrase Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK company limited by guarantee … on the Foundation's website. The problem is that, per the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008, which is piece of secondary legislation (see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/495/contents/made), the website must state that Raspberry Pi Foundation is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England …. Also, the Regulations state that the company number must be included, which is it not currently (only the charity registration number is listed). The full info would be:

Raspberry Pi Foundation is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England number 06758215, a registered charity, number 1129409, registered at 37 Hills Road, Cambridge, England, CB2 1NT.

Note that the legal name is Raspberry Pi Foundation not The Raspberry Pi Foundation. The style guide should probably mention this, since it says to use The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is only correct when not referring to the legal name of the company.

[ghost]

Also, there's nothing I can find on Trading's website that has the required information about that company, per the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008. Note that the information need not be on every page, but must be easily accessible.

Also, per the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/contents/made), Trading is required to disclose their VAT number on their website.

So the full legally required information is:

Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd is a company limited by shares and registered in England, number 08207441, at Maurice Wilkes Building St. John's Innovation Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0DS. VAT number GB155696471.

[ghost]

And the 'Trademark Rules' page on Trading's website (https://www.raspberrypi.com/trademark-rules/) incorrectly states that the trademarks are owned by Trading - this is not the case - see https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?id=831641&domain=1&app=0&mark=UK00918188560 - choose one of the trademarks and click the names and addresses tab to reveal the owner's name as Raspberry Pi Foundation.

(That page also breaches the style guide in a number of ways - use of quotation marks, use of scare quotes, capitalisation after colon when used in a header-style construction. I would also question the use of the legalese convention of capitalising defined terms, e.g. Raspberry Pi Word Mark. Since it's not a legal document, it's not necessary to put Word Mark in capitals - doing so is grammatically incorrect).

[ghost]

Closed with no explanation - nice.