(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link China has overtaken Spain to become the world's biggest market for pricey Cuban cigars, according to Habanos, Cuba's state-owned cigar company.

A federal judge rules to strip the General Cigar Co. of the Cohiba brand trademark, siding with Havana's Cubatabaco, the originator of the name. The ruling follows a lawsuit initially filed in 1997 by ...

Cuba has won the latest round of a 25-year old legal spat over US trademark rights to its famed Cohiba cigars, the smokes once favored by Fidel Castro, the company that markets them said Friday.

SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, Cuba -- Cuban rum maestro Jose Navarro's taste buds sing when he sips Havana Club, the sweet spirit distilled in this farming town south of the capital. "It has to be Cuban," ...

The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the most tender ones ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban cigar sales jumped 9 percent to $401 million in 2011 as spending on luxury items increased in countries with stronger economies, Cuban cigar executives said on Monday. They ...

Of the six shapes in the Hemingway line, ranging from the 91⁄2-inch Masterpiece to the 41⁄2-inch Short Story, our preference is the 7 x 48 Classic. It provides thick, Cameroon-wrapped spiciness for a ...

The legal dispute dates back to 1997, when Cuba’s state-owned company attempted to register its Cohiba mark but was turned away because of General Cigar Company’s registration. The court found ...