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Does Google treat them differently? I found something interesting just now and decided to post it up

http://www.daviddischler.com/is-duplicate-content-treated-differently-when-local-seo-comes-into-play/

I currently have a dozen client websites or so that I have setup under my Webmaster tools login. Should I put them each separately under their own webmaster tools, then just add me as a user? Is the way I'm doing it now messing with Authorship?

That makes sense. So basically the answer is that Google is smart enough to tell that it is your actual business name, and not a website you bought to rank with.  Thanks!

Thanks for the response, but the diversity of locations doesn't answer the problem. Those links, if I am linking as branding, would be exact matches to my keyword.  So in the anchor text diversity examples some professionals give of:

40% Branding
40% Random
20% Keyword

that would automatically make the branding fit in the category of Keyword which gives:

60% Keyword
40% Random

How do we know that Google knows the difference?  I'm not just referencing the domain name... but more importantly, the business name is the same as the keyword, which gives the branding issue.

Referencing the new 'over optimization' penalties.. What if your company name was "Buy a Burrito" and your website website was buyaburrito.com (not a real site), and your main keyphrase was "buy a burrito".  Will Google treat all Branded Terms as exact or phrase match keywords and penalize you?