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Can I hide the trademark owner details from the public?

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No. IP offices are required to maintain public registers as a matter of law. Trademark owner information, including name and address, is compulsory public information and cannot be redacted or hidden.

In some jurisdictions, it is possible to list a representative's address (such as a law firm's office address) as the correspondence address, which keeps the owner's home or personal address out of the correspondence line of the public record. However, the owner's legal name and official address must still be registered correctly.

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