The award-winning brand and product designer Bob MacNeil drew an illustration of a "PatentTroll" (see WIPO Magazine 112010, page 4) for a well known magazine that proved so popular he found it illegally copied and used by the very defenders of intellectual property (IP) rights themselves. A bit ironic, but they did immediately remedy the situation when he contacted them. In this interview for the WIPO Magazine, he talks about his first childhood experience as an artist; how the Internet has become an indispensable tool, linking him to the wider world and broadening the market for his work; and gives stern recom?mendations to young people seeking to follow in his footsteps.
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