(CN) - A Cuban government-owned tobacco company won its 12-year legal battle to stop a U.S. cigar producer from using the Cohiba name and trademark in the United States. A federal judge in Manhattan ...

MAKERS OF THE cigar Fidel Castro made famous were fuming yesterday after an appeals court sent its trademark infringement lawsuit against a New York company up in smoke. The 2nd Circuit U. S. Court of ...

General Cigar of Virginia sought to reverse cancellation of its Cohiba mark. The Virginia court said the Inter-American Convention allowed Cuba to assert its rights. The court found General Cigar ...

Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...

It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...

In what may be the longest running trademark dispute in the United States, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) in December 2022 ordered the cancellation of the COHIBA and COHIBA ...

HAVANA, Cuba March 6, 2006 — -- Over a thousand wealthy Cohiba lovers descended on Havana last week for the annual cigar festival. When it comes to building foreign friendships, Cuban President ...

Capitalism has its advantages, comrade. A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday said American trademark law protects Cuba’s premium Cohiba brand of cigars and ordered a New York company to quit selling ...

It has been a good 12 months for what are euphemistically termed New World cigar producers—that is, those makers based outside Cuba. During the past year, it has been almost as difficult to obtain a ...

Cigar lovers are celebrating today's trade announcement by the Obama administration, which makes it a lot easier for the average person to legally purchase Cuban cigars and bring them back to the ...

Don’t feel bad if Covid-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions kept you from attending the XXIII Habanos Festival in Havana, Cuba this past February. They didn’t have it. And for the second year in a ...