Software Freedom Conservancy today submitted a petition to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) asking that Office to reconsider recent rulemaking that exposes trademark owners' personal addresses. This rulemaking
has a direct impact on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects and charities (like Conservancy) that work to advance software freedom. FOSS is developed virtually, with limited budgets, and rarely does a FOSS project have office space. FOSS projects that register trademarks
should not be required to disclose the personal, residential, home address of the project leaders. Furthermore, software freedom
organizations are more likely to be full-telecommute organizations, in which case, the new USPTO rule requires disclosure of
officers and/or directors home addresses.