audit-trademark-compliance

name	audit-trademark-compliance
description	Query public trademark databases to ensure generated design text or quotes do not violate registered intellectual property. Use when the Commerce & Design agent must gate a merch concept before it becomes a designer task or listing. Also a checkpoint for the Envato-incorporation and FTC/AI-disclosure gates (spec §10.5/§10.8).
metadata	{"agent":"commerce-design","source":"Project Atlas Agent Skills Manifest §6","layer":"L6-commerce"}

audit-trademark-compliance

IP/trademark safety gate for merch concepts.

When to use

• Before a design prompt/brief becomes a designer_task, and before any listing is published.

Function signature (manifest contract)

def audit_trademark_compliance(design_text: str) -> dict:
    """Query trademark DB APIs; return whether the text violates registered IP."""

Inputs / Outputs

• Input: design_text (slogan/quote/title on the product).
• Output: {clean: bool, conflicts: [{mark, owner, jurisdiction}], recommendation}.

Related gates (spec §10)

• Envato incorporation gate (§10.5): require an incorporated_description for any Envato-sourced asset.
• FTC affiliate disclosure + Redbubble AI-disclosure (§10.8/§10.1) before publish.

Backend dependency — intentionally still blocked, not wired

• Trademark DB API (e.g. USPTO/EUIPO) — key/integration not present yet. Stubbed.
• Writes outcome to designer_tasks.review_outcome (Railway).
• Why this isn't routed through run_judgment_agent like the other commerce-design skill: an LLM guessing trademark conflicts from training-data knowledge alone, with no real trademark-search backend, would produce a confident-sounding but unverified clean: true/false -- a false-confidence legal-risk problem for a merch pipeline, not a missing-wiring problem. This needs either a real USPTO/TMDN API integration, or at minimum routing through the existing Brave/Exa SearchService (the same way fetch-signals already does) for grounded search results, before it's safe to wire.

Model

deepseek-direct/deepseek-chat to summarize matches; deterministic pass/fail on exact-mark hits.