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Mark Engelmann of Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu describes Leheny as ‘vastly experienced and very highly regarded, both within her company and in the trademark community generally’. Responsibility for protecting some 150 trademarks for iconic brands such as Excedrin, Theraflu, and Triaminic is no mean feat, and 10 years ago the challenge for Leheny became even greater when the IP department became global. Tasked with becoming the first person in the department to transport her role beyond the US, she freely admits now that she ‘didn’t have an international background, so I learned it all on the fly’. Despite language barriers, time zone limitations, and trademarks that dated back to the 1900s, Leheny impressed bosses so much that they gave her responsibility for all the company’s consumer health businesses too. A decade on and she’s now got the benefit of ‘two amazing and highly skilled paralegals’, and is very much enjoying working with her ‘cohesive team’, saying that they ‘get together and laugh a lot’.