INPADOC legal-status events for a patent publication via EPO OPS: the timeline of procedural events (examination, grant, designations, national-phase entries, lapses, withdrawals) each with an event code, description, and date. For tracking whether a patent is in force, granted, or lapsed. Net-new.
AI agents call patents.epo-legal to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries historical legal-status data about patent events from the European Patent Office's OPS (Open Patent Services). It performs read-only lookups of procedural timelines and status information. The description explicitly frames this as 'for tracking' (information retrieval), with no indication of modifying, creating, deleting, or executing external actions.
From the tool's definition INPADOC legal-status events for a patent publication via EPO OPS: the timeline of procedural events (examination, grant, designations, national-phase entries, lapses, withdrawals) each with an event code, description, and date.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
INPADOC legal-status events for a patent publication via EPO OPS: the timeline of procedural events (examination, grant, designations, national-phase entries, lapses, withdrawals) each with an event code, description, and date. For tracking whether a patent is in force, granted, or lapsed. Net-new. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for patents.epo-legal: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp. Nothing to install.
patents.epo-legal is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the patents.epo-legal rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for patents.epo-legal. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
patents.epo-legal is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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