November 15, 2024
A New York federal judge on Thursday green-lit a trademark infringement settlement in which Abbott Laboratories will receive $8 million from a Florida businessman who recently pled guilty to healthcare fraud for his role in a sprawling gray market scheme to profit off of Abbott's line of diabetic test strips meant to be sold internationally.
November 06, 2024
Abbott Laboratories has resolved a dispute with a diabetes test-strip wholesaler that was ordered to pay Abbott $33.4 million after committing discovery misconduct, with the parties saying they've agreed to a settlement after a federal appeals court upheld Abbott's default win in September.
August 23, 2024
A New York federal magistrate judge has recommended that default judgments totaling more than $54 million be entered against 85 companies and individuals who didn't respond to Abbott Laboratories' nearly decade-old trademark suit over gray-market diabetes test strips, according to a report and recommendation filed Thursday.
July 18, 2024
A New York federal judge has agreed to freeze trusts tied to a couple who owe Abbott Laboratories $33.4 million in sprawling trademark litigation over gray-market diabetes test strips, finding an asset freeze is necessary due to the defendants' "pervasive and repeated" use of the trusts for personal expenses and gambling.
April 05, 2024
Abbott Laboratories told a New York federal judge Friday that the company has settled what remains of its trademark litigation campaign against makers of gray market diabetes test strips that has been going on since 2015.
March 27, 2023
A gray market diabetes test strip seller must pay more than $33 million total to Abbott Laboratories after a New York federal judge found that the seller violated trademark laws by selling test trips made for the European market in the U.S.
January 04, 2023
A New York federal judge has ordered a gray-market diabetes test strip seller to cough up almost $26.5 million to Abbott Laboratories over allegations of breaking trademark laws by selling test strips made for the European marketplace in the U.S. — not quite the nearly $40 million that Abbott's lawyers asked for.
March 26, 2020
A New York federal judge has entered judgment against gray-market diabetes test strip supplier H&H Wholesale Services Inc. for engaging in what a magistrate judge called "a cautionary tale about how not to conduct discovery in federal court."
May 03, 2019
A New York federal magistrate judge has scolded H&H Wholesale Services Inc. for engaging in a calculated fraud that she described as "a cautionary tale about how not to conduct discovery in federal court," and recommended that Abbott Laboratories immediately win a trademark dispute with the company.
November 21, 2018
GlobalMed on Wednesday slammed Abbott Laboratories' bid for summary judgment in a suit in New York federal court accusing GlobalMed of selling "gray market" versions of Abbott's diabetes test strips, saying the drugmaker "lacks anything tying GlobalMed to this supposed scheme."