[E-trademarks] Domicile Address

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 4/29/2025 9:41 AM, Louis Levy via E-trademarks wrote:
>
> We provided the address of a company HQ as a business address.  It is 
> an office in a multi-dwelling commercial building.  The Examiner “the 
> address does not identify applicant’s principal place of business” and 
> is requiring a “domicile address.”
>
> Has anyone run into this kind of thing before? Is the PTO randomly 
> questioning legitimate office addresses if they are in multi-dwelling 
> buildings?
>
Yes this has been discussed several times in the past couple of years on 
this listserv.

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.

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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