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May 17, 2023

Cigar trademark up in smoke

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Grant Gabriel

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Irell & Manella LLP

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In a recent precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board granted a petition from a junior user to cancel two COHIBA registrations for cigars. Marking another skirmish in a decades-old trademark battle, Empresa Cubana Del Tabaco d.b.a. Cubatabaco v. General Cigar Co., Inc., 2022 USPQ 2d 1242 (TTAB 2022), appeal docketed, No. 1:23-cv-00227 (E.D. Va. Feb. 20, 2023), has heightened awareness of the Inter-American Convention for Trade Mark and Commercial Pro...

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