[E-trademarks] Domicile Address

[Louis Levy]

Thanks, Carl.

Louis J. Levy | Attorney
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From: Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] Domicile Address

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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