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When I search the name of my trademark on Google, my home address can be seen via a website called Trademark Elite. Is there anything that can be done about it?

Founder & Trademark Attorney

Trademark Elite and similar third-party websites republish data from official public trademark registers. Since the information they display is sourced from public IP office records, removing it from those sites requires either requesting removal directly from the third-party site (which they are not obligated to act on) or changing the underlying data at the IP office level.

To change what appears in the public record, you can submit an address update to the IP office using a business address or a legal representative's address in place of your home address. This is possible in most jurisdictions and will eventually be reflected in the data third-party sites pull from the official register, though there may be a lag before those sites update.

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