Patent work has always been the highest-stakes corner of legal practice – one missed claim can define a company’s competitive position for decades. Patlytics has quietly become the platform that more than 40% of the Am Law 100 relies on to handle it, and the company just closed $40M to accelerate what comes next. What does a company do with that kind of traction and that kind of capital in a market being reshaped by AI from both sides at once?