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Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye

Willy Minnoye is a staunch supporter of Benoît Battistelli and EPO immunity. He adamantly believes that the EPO should disregard rulings (even from the highest Dutch court) and the rule of law in general. Mr. Minnoye retired after years of working within the toxic work environment he had created (and well past retirement age).

  • 02.16.16 EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
  • 02.16.16 Caricature of the Day: Willy Minnoye (EPO) Above the Law
  • 02.23.16 New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)
  • 08.08.16 EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving
  • 12.15.16 Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!
  • 03.28.17 Benoît Battistelli ‘Pulls an Erdoğan’ Faster Than Erdoğan
  • 06.30.17 Caricature: Charlie EPO
  • 12.28.17 Raw: European Patent Office’s Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies


  • 01.29.16 Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff
  • 05.02.16 Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts
  • 07.22.16 EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO’s Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
  • 10.26.16 Leaked: EPO’s Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It
  • 03.03.17 Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
  • 03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
  • 11.30.17 EPO’s Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”
  • 03.13.18 Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures


  • 10.13.15 EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
  • 10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
  • 10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
  • 11.20.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III
  • 11.21.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
  • 12.06.15 The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
  • 12.06.15 Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.20.15 More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
  • 12.26.15 Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
  • 01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
  • 01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
  • 02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
  • 02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
  • 02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
  • 02.08.16 The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
  • 02.09.16 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics ‘Damage Control’ Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
  • 02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
  • 02.10.16 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
  • 02.16.16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
  • 02.16.16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
  • 02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
  • 02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
  • 02.22.16 “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO
  • 02.22.16 Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts
  • 02.23.16 More Information About Battistelli’s Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)
  • 02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
  • 02.25.16 Más Información Acerca de los Ultimos Miserables Movimientos de la OEP de Battistelli (Foto Filtrada Incluida)
  • 02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
  • 03.02.16 EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support
  • 03.02.16 Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With ‘Unions’ and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
  • 03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
  • 03.04.16 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
  • 03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
  • 03.16.16 Reader’s Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
  • 03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
  • 04.04.16 Battistelli’s Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
  • 04.05.16 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
  • 04.18.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV
  • 04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
  • 04.29.16 ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
  • 05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
  • 05.25.16 The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge (Updatedx3)
  • 05.29.16 Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić’s EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him
  • 06.01.16 ES: Rumor: Battistelli Quiere Extender el Periódo de Topic en la EPO a Pesar de los Cargos Criminales en Su Contra
  • 06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
  • 06.30.16 Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
  • 07.20.16 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
  • 09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
  • 09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.30.16 Dutch Court Rules Against SUEPO (in a Reversal), But EPO Management Would Have Ignored the Ruling Even If SUEPO Won (Updated)
  • 11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
  • 11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
  • 11.18.16 Concerns Over ‘Terror’ Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
  • 12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
  • 12.20.16 Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO — in Defiance of the Administrative Council’s Demands! — Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
  • 12.21.16 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO’s Management, the UPC’s Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
  • 12.26.16 Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing
  • 12.27.16 Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
  • 12.27.16 Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
  • 12.31.16 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”
  • 01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
  • 01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.18.17 Rumours Suggest That EPO Management is Aware of Decline in Patent Quality and is Thus Actively Lying About it to the Media/Public
  • 01.19.17 Farce of an ‘Independence’ for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the ‘Overseer’/Host
  • 01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
  • 02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
  • 03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
  • 03.05.17 EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
  • 03.08.17 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else ‘High Level’ Action
  • 03.09.17 Battistelli’s Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
  • 03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
  • 04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
  • 04.07.17 The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO
  • 04.21.17 EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
  • 04.23.17 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
  • 05.01.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VIII: Allegations That the EPO Has No Honest Doctors, Only ‘Fake’ Ones Subservient to Team Battistelli
  • 05.05.17 Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
  • 05.12.17 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
  • 06.12.17 The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire
  • 06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
  • 06.23.17 Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
  • 07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
  • 07.05.17 The EPO’s Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
  • 07.08.17 If Antonio Campinos (EUIPO) Takes Over the EPO With Alberto Casado Cerviño (Former OHIM/EUIPO) in Charge of Patent Granting, Subversive Loyalty to Battistelli Will Remain
  • 07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
  • 08.05.17 EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge
  • 08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Implements Erdoğan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 10.08.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • 10.22.17 The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
  • 10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
  • 10.28.17 Fresh Allegations That the Belgian EPO Delegation is Compromised or in Cahoots With Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.04.17 Raw: The EPO’s Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests
  • 12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
  • 02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
  • 03.08.18 Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
  • 10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
  • 05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos