date:Jun 14, 2012
In mid-May the US Supreme Court refused to review what Pernod Ricard said was acontroversial2009 decision from the Court of Appeals of the District of Colombia, with the issue coming to ahead given possible easing of a US embargo on Cuban goods in the near future.
This upheld a US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) decision from 2006, denying the French firm (via Cuban state export body Cubaexport) in its application to trademark the Havana Club brand name and sell rum using it in the US.