date:Jun 14, 2012
US due to a wholesale trade embargo imposed on Cuban goods.
Consequently, Bacardi argues its common law ownership of the trademark is based on use, as Neal explained, where US law distinguished between this and Federal name registration with the Arechabala family and Bacardi the only entities to ever use the Havana Club name in the US.
Neal said:Bacardi filed its federal application to register the Havana Club name in the US. in 1994 in order to obtain the further protections that a federal r