After Slesinger's death in 1953, his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character herself. On 26 June 2006, the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case, sustaining the ruling and ensuring the defeat of the suit.

But he also habitually visits the other animals, often looking for a snack or an audience for his poetry as much as for companionship. Ashdown Forest in south east England, where the Pooh stories are set, is a popular tourist attraction, and includes the wooden Pooh Bridge where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks. for Disney Junior, became the first project from Disney to be released after the original book and characters became public domain.Another authorised sequel, Winnie-the-Pooh: The Best Bear in All the World, was published by Egmont in 2016. The sequel consists of four short stories by four leading children's authors, Kate Saunders, Brian Sibley, Paul Bright, and Jeanne Willis. There is a street in Warsaw, Poland, named after the character, the Kubusia Puchatka Street, as he is known in Polish translations as Kubuś Puchatek.

Taiwanese pilots have worn morale patches which feature a formosan black bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh in the face. In the "sport" of Poohsticks, competitors drop sticks into a stream from a bridge and then wait to see whose stick will cross the finish line first. Because of this, Hanyu's fans will throw stuffed Winnie-the-Poohs onto the ice after his performance. In 2006, Pooh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, marking the 80th birthday of Milne's creation. I spend many Kindergarten afternoons jumping off the school bus looking forward to a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch and Winnie the Pooh on our very limited cable tv.Mass media in China used the term "Pooh Pooh Bear" ( Chinese: 噗噗熊) in reports about this incident because the word "Winnie" has been censored. The first time Pooh and his friends appeared in colour was 1932, when he was drawn by Slesinger in his now-familiar red shirt and featured on an RCA Victor picture record. Twinkl Puzzledis a bit like the Hundred Acre Wood from the story, it's full of lots of fun things and charming characters. For example, the fictional " Hundred Acre Wood" was in reality Five Hundred Acre Wood; Galleon's Leap was inspired by the prominent hilltop of Gill's Lap, while a clump of trees just north of Gill's Lap became Christopher Robin's The Enchanted Place, because no-one had ever been able to count whether there were 63 or 64 trees in the circle.