| 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.
