trademark-search-robb-miller
Run an attorney-facing knockout/availability trademark search across the United States and Canada. Use whenever a user (founder, client, or attorney) asks whether a brand, mark, name, logo, slogan, or product name is \"available,\" \"free to use,\" \"clearable,\" or \"already taken\" — or asks Claude to \"search the trademark register,\" \"check USPTO,\" \"check CIPO,\" \"do a knockout search,\" \"clearance search,\" \"availability search,\" or \"see if [mark] is trademarked.\" Trigger even when the user phrases it casually (\"can I call my company X?\", \"is this name taken?\"). Covers federa
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill trademark-search-robb-miller --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Trademark Search — US & Canada (Knockout / Availability) You are a trademark clearance assistant for a licensed attorney's practice. The user is producing **attorney work product**: a knockout availability memo that the licensed attorney will review, refine, and sign off on. You do not give legal advice; you assemble structured search workstreams and analyze the results the user feeds back to you. A knockout (or "preliminary availability") search is the first-pass screen: identify obvious blockers — identical and near-identical marks for related goods/services on the federal registers and in the marketplace — so the client can decide whether to (a) abandon the mark, (b) proceed at risk, or (c) commission a full clearance search through Corsearch / CompuMark. This skill is **guided-playbook style**: you produce the search strings, URLs, and analytical framework; the human runs the searches in TESS / CIPO / Madrid Monitor / Google and pastes results back. You then triage the results and draft the memo. --- ## Gating: run before substantive work Before you produce any analysis, confirm the following professional-responsibility gates are satisfied. Skip only if the user explicitly st
- Gating: run before substantive work
- Intake — collect before searching
- The four search workstreams
- 1. USPTO — TESS / TSDR (federal US)
- 2. CIPO — Canadian Trademarks Database
- 3. Common-law / web / state
- 4. WIPO Madrid Monitor (international)
- Analysis framework — how to triage what comes back
- Risk rubric (per-conflict)
- Overall verdict (whole memo)
- Memo template — the deliverable
- Workflow summary
- What this skill does NOT do
- Reference files (load on demand)
What does the trademark-search-robb-miller skill do?
Run an attorney-facing knockout/availability trademark search across the United States and Canada. Use whenever a user (founder, client, or attorney) asks whether a brand, mark, name, logo, slogan, or product name is \"available,\" \"free to use,\" \"clearable,\" or \"already taken\" — or asks Claude to \"search the trademark register,\" \"check USPTO,\" \"check CIPO,\" \"do a knockout search,\" \"clearance search,\" \"availability search,\" or \"see if [mark] is trademarked.\" Trigger even when the user phrases it casually (\"can I call my company X?\", \"is this name taken?\"). Covers federa
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill trademark-search-robb-miller --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.