Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

MITAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Law Ip

skills CLI
$ npx skills add asgard-ai-platform/skills --skill law-ip -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install asgard-ai-platform/skills law-ip --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asgard-ai-platform/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/law-ip .claude/skills/law-ip && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
law-ip
GitHub stars
242
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
520 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
207
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

  • Works in 6 steps: Inventory: What potentially protectable… → Classify: Which IP type fits each asset? → Assess current protection: Is each asset… → …
  • The user needs to understand IP protection options
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Framework, Output Format and Examples, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Law Ip is an agent skill from asgard-ai-platform/skills. Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Use this skill when the user needs to understand IP protection options, evaluate whether their work is protectable, assess infringement risk, or design an IP strategy — even if they say 'can I patent this', 'someone copied our design', 'how do we protect our brand name', or 'what IP do we have'.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `examples/sample_scenario.md` and `references/tipo-procedures.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Intellectual property. The repository describes itself as: 301 open-source coding agent skills across 22 domains — methodology, judgment & gotchas packaged as Claude Agent Skills for the Asgard AI Platform. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user needs to understand IP protection options
  • Evaluate whether their work is protectable
  • Assess infringement risk
  • Design an IP strategy — even if they say can I patent this

Example prompts

  • “can I patent this”
  • “someone copied our design”
  • “how do we protect our brand name”
  • “/law-ip”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Inventory: What potentially protectable assets does the organization have?
  2. Classify: Which IP type fits each asset?
  3. Assess current protection: Is each asset already protected? How?
  4. Identify gaps: What's unprotected or under-protected?
  5. Prioritize: Which assets are most valuable and most at risk?
  6. Recommend: Registration, contractual protection, or operational security for each asset

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4e7f4f8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Law Ip loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 520 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from asgard-ai-platform/skills at commit 4e7f4f8, republished under its MIT licence (© asgard-ai-platform). 520 words, ~1,374 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/law-ip/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
law-ip
description
Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Use this skill when the user needs to understand IP protection options, evaluate whether their work is protectable, assess infringement risk, or design an IP strategy — even if they say 'can I patent this', 'someone copied our design', 'how do we protect our brand name', or 'what IP do we have'.
metadata.category
WP-20 法學院
metadata.tags
law, intellectual-property, patents, trademarks

Intellectual Property Analysis

Overview

IP law protects creations of the mind through four main mechanisms: patents (inventions), trademarks (brand identifiers), copyrights (creative works), and trade secrets (confidential business information). Each has different requirements, scope, duration, and costs.

Framework

IRON LAW: Match the Protection to the Asset

A brand name is protected by TRADEMARK, not copyright.
Software source code is protected by COPYRIGHT, not patent (usually).
A manufacturing process is protected by PATENT or TRADE SECRET.
Using the wrong mechanism leaves the asset unprotected.
The Four IP Types
TypeProtectsRequirementsDurationRegistration
PatentNovel, non-obvious, useful inventionsMust be new, inventive, industrially applicable20 years from filingRequired (申請制)
TrademarkBrand names, logos, slogans that identify sourceMust be distinctive (not generic/descriptive)10 years, renewable indefinitelyRequired for full protection
CopyrightOriginal creative works (text, code, art, music)Must be original expression (not ideas or facts)Life + 50 years (Taiwan)Automatic (no registration needed)
Trade SecretConfidential business information with economic valueMust be secret, have value from secrecy, reasonable efforts to maintain secrecyIndefinite (as long as secret is kept)No registration — protect through NDAs and access controls
IP Audit Steps
  1. Inventory: What potentially protectable assets does the organization have?
  2. Classify: Which IP type fits each asset?
  3. Assess current protection: Is each asset already protected? How?
  4. Identify gaps: What's unprotected or under-protected?
  5. Prioritize: Which assets are most valuable and most at risk?
  6. Recommend: Registration, contractual protection, or operational security for each asset
Key Decision: Patent vs Trade Secret
FactorPatentTrade Secret
Can competitors reverse-engineer it?Yes → PatentNo → Trade Secret may be better
Is independent discovery likely?Yes → Patent (blocks them)No → Trade Secret may suffice
How long does the advantage last?< 20 years → Patent> 20 years → Trade Secret
Can you detect infringement?Yes → Patent is enforceableNo → Patent is hard to enforce
ExamplePharmaceutical compoundCoca-Cola recipe

Output Format

markdown
# IP Analysis: {Company/Product}

## IP Asset Inventory
| Asset | Type | Current Protection | Gap | Priority |
|-------|------|-------------------|-----|----------|
| {asset} | Patent/TM/Copyright/TS | {status} | {what's missing} | H/M/L |

## Recommendations
1. {asset}: {recommended action} — {rationale}

## Risk Assessment
| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Mitigation |
|------|-----------|--------|-----------|
| {IP risk} | H/M/L | H/M/L | {action} |

Examples

Show full SKILL.md (246 more words)Show less
Correct Application

Scenario: IP audit for a Taiwanese SaaS startup

AssetTypeProtectionGap
Brand name "CloudPOS"TrademarkNot registered🔴 Register with TIPO immediately
POS algorithm for demand forecastingTrade Secret or PatentNone🔴 Decide patent vs trade secret, implement NDAs
Source codeCopyrightAutomatic ✓🟡 Ensure employment contracts assign IP to company
Customer data processing methodTrade SecretNo access controls🔴 Implement access controls + NDA with employees

Key recommendation: File trademark first (fast, cheap, high risk of name-squatting). Patent decision can wait until product-market fit ✓

Incorrect Application
  • "We'll copyright our brand name" → Brand names are protected by trademark, not copyright. Copyright protects creative expression, not identifiers. Violates Iron Law: match protection to asset.

Gotchas

  • Ideas are NOT protectable: Copyright protects expression, not ideas. Patent protects specific implementations. The "idea" for an app is not IP — the specific code, design, or invention is.
  • Employee-created IP: In Taiwan, IP created by employees during employment generally belongs to the employer (Copyright Act Art. 11, Patent Act Art. 7), but contracts should make this explicit.
  • Open source ≠ no IP: Open source software has copyright — the license grants permissions, not ownership. Violating license terms is copyright infringement.
  • First-to-file for patents: Taiwan uses first-to-file (not first-to-invent). If you delay filing, a competitor who files first gets the patent even if you invented it earlier.
  • This is educational guidance, not legal advice: IP strategy requires consultation with a licensed patent attorney or IP specialist.

References

  • For Taiwan TIPO (智慧財產局) filing procedures, see references/tipo-procedures.md

© asgard-ai-platform, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in law-ip of asgard-ai-platform/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • examples/sample_scenario.md
  • references/tipo-procedures.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4e7f4f8

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Questions about Law Ip

What does Law Ip do?

Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Law Ip is an agent skill from asgard-ai-platform/skills. Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

When should I use Law Ip?

Law Ip fits situations like: the user needs to understand IP protection options; evaluate whether their work is protectable; assess infringement risk; design an IP strategy — even if they say can I patent this.

How do I install Law Ip in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add asgard-ai-platform/skills --skill law-ip -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (law-ip in asgard-ai-platform/skills) into .claude/skills/law-ip in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Law Ip in Codex?

Run `npx skills add asgard-ai-platform/skills --skill law-ip -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (law-ip in asgard-ai-platform/skills) into .agents/skills/law-ip in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Law Ip in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add asgard-ai-platform/skills --skill law-ip -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/law-ip, .gemini/skills/law-ip, .github/skills/law-ip and .opencode/skills/law-ip in your project.

What does Law Ip need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Law Ip is instructions for the agent only.

Does Law Ip access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Law Ip safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Law Ip use?

Law Ip is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Law Ip use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Law Ip?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Law Ip: Paper to Chinese Patent Drafter (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars), Paper To Cn Patent (snipp-zha/Paper-to-patent-Skill, 107 stars), Patent Examine (gfodor/legal-skills, 393 stars) and Patent Audit (gfodor/legal-skills, 393 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Law Ip?

asgard-ai-platform (a GitHub organization) maintains it in asgard-ai-platform/skills, which has 242 GitHub stars. The repository holds 207 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 6, 2026.

Source: asgard-ai-platform/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.