The war between rival liquor giants Bacardi and Pernod Ricard over who owns the rights to the name Havana Club has been in ... trademark rights in the United States is usage, who was using it.

In time, a rum called Havana Club flowed out of Cuba and was eventually exported the world over — except to the United States. From a new base in Bermuda, Bacardi, too, went global, and Bacardi ...

With the United States and Cuba ... been locked in a rum war for more than two decades show no signs of ending their legal battle over who has the right to use the Havana Club trademark in ...

The mythology around Cuban rum, and Havana Club specifically ... the rights to sell its Puerto Rican-made “Havana Club” in the United States, and Pernod Ricard, which (in partnership with ...

SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, Cuba (Reuters) - Havana Club will keep churning ... long prohibited the import and sale of Cuban rum in the United States. Those sanctions - hardened in his first term ...

John Gomez, the marketing director of Bacardi USA, says the Bacardis regarded Havana Club as a competitor to their own rum. Mr. JOHN GOMEZ (Bacardi USA): This is a brand that was served in the ...

During the revolution, US companies and citizens were expropriated, prompting the United States to respond ... In the 1950s, Havana Club was Cuba's second-largest rum brand after Bacardi.

new video loaded: Havana Club Cuban rum ready to rediscover America Cuba's largest distillery awaits the lifting of the U.S. embargo to market the world-famous Havana Club rum to the United States.

It’s called Havana Club, and Barcadi is the company bringing ... recipe and they claim the rights to produce the rum in the United States. RYSSDAL: But you’ve been able to get Havana Club ...

Bacardi bought Jose Arechabala's brand and started selling Havana Club rum in the United States in 1995. Cubaexport first registered its U.S. Havana Club trademark in 1976. Bacardi sued Cubaexport ...