Bacardi has sued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for allegedly violating the law by reviving a Cuban government entity's 'Havana Club' trademark, which the liquor giant uses on American rum.
between Bacardi and Cuba over the "Havana Club" name, which Bacardi says was unlawfully seized along with the assets of Cuban company Jose Arechabala SA by the Castro regime in 1960.
Cubaexport first registered the "Havana Club" trademark in the U.S. in 1976. According to the complaint, Cubaexport tried to renew the registration in 2006, but was thwarted after failing to get a license from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Bacardi's complaint said the renewal "some ten years after the registration had expired is a moral outrage to be sure, but also violates the law and must be set aside." It also said Bacardi's application to register its "Havana Club" mark will likely be refused because of it.
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