Presentation of Jozéf Halbersztadt, examiner at the Polish Patent Office (not speaking for his employer), prepared for the Conference on Software Patents at the Dorint Hotel in Brussels on May 7-8 2003.

Conference Contribution Effects of the directive proposal on the polish patent practise Halbersztadt: Some EPO decisions in harmony with CULT proposals Points out that the EPO has no other concept of what is "technical" than the "controlled use of forces of nature", and that this is reflected in recent decisions, some of which are in perfect harmony with the CULT proposal and FFII counter-proposal. Remarks on the Patentability of Computer Software -- History, Status, Developments An essay by Jozef Halbersztadt, patent examiner at the Polish Patent Office, prepared for a lecture in Stutgart in July 2001. The essay expresses his private views on the needs to accomodate the peculiarities of software by specially tailored exclusion/reward rights rather than by just adapting copyright or, even worse, patent law. It narrates the history of software law as a chaotic evolution where the horses determined the direction of the cart until the cart ran against a wall and the driver woke up. Halbersztadt proposes a relaunch of the Samuelson-Kappor-Davis Manifesto of 1994 with various optional modifications and ways to introduce those ideas into the current European legislation process.