[E-trademarks] Refusal because examiner claims that actual street address is really virtual

[Simor Moskowitz]

You might try the following.

I recently encountered a similar issue and submitted a print-out from the State's corporations' page showing the client's (not Resident Agent) address --

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The Examiner accepted the address as the applicant's "domicile" address, and the address questioned by the Examiner was accepted as the applicant's "mailing" address.



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Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] Refusal because examiner claims that actual street address is really virtual

Also, hammer on the burden of proof.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM Jessica R. Friedman via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>> wrote:

An application is being refused because the examining attorney maintains, on the basis of I know not what, that Applicant’s provided address appears to be that of a virtual office claimed by various businesses, and therefore is not the location of applicant’s headquarters where its senior executives or officers ordinarily direct and control applicant’s activities.



The address, which includes street number and suite number, is that of my client’s law firm, from which she also runs the applicant company. This same address has been the basis for other trademark applications without any such objection.



Of all the objections I’ve received in my more than 40 years of doing this work, this has to be the most asinine. Since when does/can an EA claim that an actual street address isn’t an actual street address? Does someone actually have to go and take a photo of the building to prove that it’s a real address?





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