{"id":5711,"date":"2025-05-09T01:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-says-cuba-tobacco-company-has-right-to-seek-cancellation-of-u-s-rivals-cohiba-trademark\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T01:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T01:33:37","slug":"court-says-cuba-tobacco-company-has-right-to-seek-cancellation-of-u-s-rivals-cohiba-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-says-cuba-tobacco-company-has-right-to-seek-cancellation-of-u-s-rivals-cohiba-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Says Cuba Tobacco Company Has Right to Seek Cancellation of U.S. Rival&#8217;s \u2018Cohiba\u2019 Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Ruling in a three-decade dispute over the right to trademark the famed Cohiba brand of cigars, a federal court in Virginia has decided Cuba\u2019s state-owned tobacco company properly sought cancellation of a U.S. company\u2019s claim to the name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1gKxZ8coMwRVZfTR8qWlkb6zlE1eZ1U2F\/view?usp=drive_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>A ruling <\/u><\/a>issued Wednesday by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia determined Empresa Cubano del Tabaco and General Cigar Company were bound by terms of the Inter-American Convention, which recognizes trademarks registered in member nations. It also found the U.S. embargo against Cuba does not bar the Cuban company from seeking cancellation of General Cigar\u2019s mark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling in a three-decade dispute over the right to trademark the famed Cohiba brand of cigars, a federal court in Virginia has decided Cuba\u2019s state-owned tobacco company properly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4727,5860,413,143,5857,5859,550,5858,1005,272],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-cancellation","tag-cohiba","tag-company","tag-court","tag-cuba","tag-rivals","tag-seek","tag-tobacco","tag-trademark","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}