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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/29/2025 9:41 AM, Louis Levy via
E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We provided the address of a company
HQ as a business address. It is an office in a
multi-dwelling commercial building. The Examiner \u201cthe
address does not identify applicant\u2019s principal place of
business\u201d and is requiring a \u201cdomicile address.\u201d </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Has anyone run into this kind of
thing before? Is the PTO randomly questioning legitimate
office addresses if they are in multi-dwelling buildings?</span></p>
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<p>Yes this has been discussed several times in the past couple of
years on this listserv.</p>
<p>It is, of course a complete waste of resources within the
Trademark Office to agonize about whether some address might be
(heaven forbid) a Regus office or some other shared-space office.
It is beyond comprehension that any such agonizing by the
Examiners would ever smoke out some illegitimate filing by an
applicant in a particular foreign country that the Trademark
Office worries about, or would smoke out an instance of the
applicant trying to pull a fast one and not have to hire US
trademark counsel. And of course in this particular case the
applicant did anyway hire US counsel, so that risk does not need
smoking out in this particular case.</p>
<p>Yes it is commonplace for an Examiner to spend time and energy
clicking around on the Internet, looking at Google Maps Street
View to try to catch somebody using a Mailboxes Et Cetera. It is
embarrassing that it has come to this, instead of Examiners
spending time on things like figuring out whether there is a
likelihood-of-confusion problem. <br>
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