Reply: Difference between this registration and incorporation:
A company on incorporation comes into being a separate legal person having a separate legal identity and perpetual succession.
After incorporation it can die by following a legal process of winding up only as prescribed under the Act.
Whereas, a registration of a branch office in India by a foreign company is not incorporation as no separate legal entity comes into existence by such registration but is only an intimation of establishment of a place of business in India by a legal person already incorporated out of India.