The Department of State shall have the power, and its duty shall be, to register foreign corporations desiring to transact business in this Commonwealth; and to register the names, titles, or designations of associations, societies, and corporations of the first class, the assumed or fictitious names under which individuals carry on or conduct business, upon application duly made, trade marks, trade-names, labels, bottle descriptions, union labels, badges, emblems, and applications for license to manufacture or distill and sell ethyl alcohol, in accordance with the several acts of Assembly providing for such registrations, and to register all other matters or things for the registration of which in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth provision may now or hereafter be made by law.
71 P.S. § 276