AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers offer new opportunities for law firms and IP management—but they also introduce significant cybersecurity risks.

Artificial intelligence is evolving beyond answering questions and generating text. Today, AI agents can search databases, retrieve documents, process emails, call APIs, and execute actions across enterprise systems . The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a standardized way for AI models to interact with external tools and applications.

For law firms and intellectual property (IP) departments, these capabilities can streamline patent research, document analysis, deadline tracking, and administrative workflows. However, once AI can take action rather than simply generate text, security risks change fundamentally.…