Hulicki Maciej, Podrecki Paweł, The idea of an "inventive concept" as a basis of patent eligibility considerations in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of The United States

Advanced technology and hitherto methods of assessing patent eligibility of inventions seem to be mismatched to each other. Scientific progress, technology development, and creation of new fields of research (such as IT sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology etc.) made it very difficult to examine inventions from emerging technologies, which concern intangible subject matters. Sometimes, as it is in the case of inventions concerning nanotechnology, it is difficult even to comprehend them.