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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks, Carl. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 29, 2025 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [E-trademarks] Domicile Address<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/29/2025 9:41 AM, Louis Levy via E-trademarks wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Has anyone run into this kind of thing before? Is the PTO randomly questioning legitimate office addresses if they are in multi-dwelling buildings?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Yes this has been discussed several times in the past couple of years on this listserv.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.
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