# infringement-triage

Runs initial triage across trademark, copyright, patent, and trade secret disputes. It flags factors helping each party when a copycat appears or when assessing infringement risks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 616 installs · ★ 9795
- Author: anthropics · official Anthropic repository
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/ip-legal/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/infringement-triage

## What it does

The skill organizes initial conflict analysis across four IP regimes: trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. It collects the procedural posture, asking whether your side is the senior rights holder or the accused infringer, alongside jurisdiction, timing, and exhibits. When multiple rights overlap, it evaluates each claim separately instead of blending them.

Specific checks depend on the selected right. Trademark triage walks confusion tests. Copyright reviews ownership, access, and fair use. Patent reviews draft claim charts against literal infringement and the doctrine of equivalents. Trade secret checks focus on secrecy measures and misappropriation. The skill never delivers a final legal verdict. That judgment belongs to an attorney, because hasty enforcement risks fee awards and Rule 11 sanctions.

Operation relies on `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ip-legal/CLAUDE.md`. If this configuration file contains placeholders, the skill prompts for `/ip-legal:cold-start-interview` or offers a provisional run under generic US defaults. Completed memos land in the active matter workspace, after which the assistant can propose drafting a cease-and-desist letter or takedown notice.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill infringement-triage -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/infringement-triage/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill infringement-triage -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill infringement-triage -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal infringement-triage
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill infringement-triage -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path ip-legal/skills/infringement-triage
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill infringement-triage -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/ip-legal/skills/infringement-triage/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- evaluate trademark confusion risks against a competing brand name
- triage trade secret misappropriation when an employee departs to a rival
- map copyright infringement factors before filing a takedown notice
- generate a directional flag memo for supervising legal counsel

## Example prompts
- /ip-legal:infringement-triage "competitor launched a tool called APEXSEED in class 9 — we have APEXLEAF registered in class 9; likely confusion?"
- /ip-legal:infringement-triage "former engineer took notes on our model architecture to a competitor — possible trade secret?"
- /ip-legal:infringement-triage

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: infringement-triage
description: >
  Infringement triage across trademark, copyright, patent, and trade secret —
  a flag list with the factors cutting each way, not a finding. Use when
  assessing whether someone is infringing your IP or whether you might be
  infringing theirs, when a knockoff or copycat surfaces, or when deciding
  whether a matter is worth pursuing and how.
argument-hint: "[describe the facts and which right — or just the facts and I'll ask which right]"
---

# /infringement-triage

**This is a triage, not a finding of infringement or non-infringement.**
Infringement analysis is fact-intensive and legally complex. Acting on a
triage — sending a cease-and-desist, refusing to stop, filing suit, or
deciding not to — without attorney review is how companies end up on the
wrong side of fee awards, Rule 11 sanctions, declaratory-judgment actions,
and (for patents) treble damages.

## Instructions

1. Read `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ip-legal/CLAUDE.md`. If it
   contains `[PLACEHOLDER]`, stop and direct to `/ip-legal:cold-start-interview`.
2. Follow the workflow below.
3. Ask which right is at issue — trademark / copyright / patent / trade secret
   / mixed. If mixed, run each separately; do not blend.
4. Run common intake (party posture — senior or accused, jurisdiction, timing,
   exhibits).
5. Walk the mode-specific factors:
   - **Trademark** — circuit's confusion test + dilution (if famous) +
     false advertising (if a comparative claim).
   - **Copyright** — ownership + registration + access + substantial
     similarity + fair use + DMCA safe harbor (if applicable).
   - **Patent** — claim-chart first pass (route to `fto-triage` output
     structure); literal + DOE; indirect + divided; invalidity defenses to
     consider.
   - **Trade secret** — secrecy + reasonable measures + misappropriation;
     preemption + reverse-engineering flags.
6. Produce a flag list with direction — what cuts toward the senior party,
   what cuts toward the accused, what's mixed. Never conclude.
7. Write the triage memo to the matter folder or practice outputs folder. Apply
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