Organisation: Abbott Laboratories

Sophie Bodet, vice president – head of intellectual property at Haleon, reveals the pivotal role her team played in Europe’s biggest demerger of the past 20 years – all while managing a portfolio of 33,000 trademarks covering some of healthcare’s best-known brands.

07 August 2023

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The WTR Brand Elite rose a single point through April, taking it to its highest value level in just over a year.

29 May 2023

WTR sits down with PSI’s Asia-Pacific regional director Ramesh Raj Kishore to look back at the organisation’s journey and forward into the future.

31 January 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the District Court for the Eastern District of New York’s grant of a preliminary injunction to cease the sale of international versions of Abbott Laboratories’ diabetes test strips in the United States, on the grounds that differences between the two strips made it likely that Abbott’s reputation and goodwill would be irreparably harmed. The decision marks a victory for grey market enforcement.

05 January 2017

Trademark applications at the USPTO increased by 10.7% in fiscal year 2015. As the office grapples with this expanding workload, we conducted a survey to gauge user sentiment on its operations and explore some of the trends and issues that are defining the US filing landscape

01 July 2016

In this update, the <i>World Trademark Review</i> editorial team present some of the highlights from the second jam-packed day of the 2016 INTA Annual Meeting, including novel approaches to trademark enforcement, a chilling reminder of the link between counterfeiting and terrorism, how the ongoing US election campaign is affecting IP in some countries and why the Japan Patent Office has not accepted any of the 477 applications for colour trademarks that it has received so far.

24 May 2016