SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* NOVAKOVIC PHEBE N (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION, 2941 FAIRVIEW PARK DRIVE, SUITE 100 (Street) FALLS CHURCH VA 22042 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 06/11/2010	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol ABBOTT LABORATORIES [ ABT ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
No Securities are Beneficially Owned	0	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	John A. Berry, by Power of Attorney for Phebe N. Novakovic	06/21/2010
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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   Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY


	POWER OF ATTORNEY


	The undersigned constitutes and appoints LAURA J. SCHUMACHER,
JOHN A. BERRY, RICHARD E. GREEN, and STEVEN L. SCROGHAM, and each
of them individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned's name,
place and stead, to prepare and sign any and all Securities and
Exchange Commission ("SEC") Notices of Proposed Sales of
Securities pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933
on Form 144, all SEC statements on Forms 3, 4 and 5 as required
under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and
any amendments to such forms, and to file the same with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full
power and authority to do and perform each act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done under said Rule 144 and Section 16(a), as
fully for all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

	A copy of this power of attorney shall be filed with the SEC.
The authorization set forth above shall continue in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms
144, 3, 4, or 5 or if earlier, until the undersigned revokes such
authorization by written instructions to the attorney-in-fact.



Date:  June 14, 2010
  /s/ Phebe N. Novakovic
  Signature of Reporting Person

  Phebe N. Novakovic, Director
  Name

  Abbott Laboratories
  100 Abbott Park Road
  Abbott Park, IL 60064-6400