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Pernod demanda a Bacardi por la venta de Havana Club

PL

8/17/2006 9:43:00 AM

Posted on Thu, Aug. 17, 2006

Pernod demanda a Bacardí por la venta de Havana Club
ELAINE WALKER
The Miami Herald

Apenas una semana después que Bacardí comenzó a vender el ron Havana
Club en la Florida, Pernod Ricard está presentando una demanda para
sacar el producto de las tiendas.

La demanda, presentada el martes por la subsidiaria de Pernod Ricard en
Estados Unidos en la Corte federal de Distrito en Delaware, es el último
disparo en la batalla de una década entre las dos gigantes licoreras
sobre quién posee los derechos a la marca en EEUU. Pernod Ricard, con
sede en París ya vende su propia versión del Havana Club en Cuba y
alrededor del mundo como parte de un negocio conjunto con el gobierno
cubano.

La demanda de Pernod Ricard alega que Bacardí S.A. está engañando a los
consumidores para que crean que su ron Havana Club se hace en Cuba. La
demanda, que acusa a Bacardí por violar la Ley Lanham, también sostiene
que la compañía no tiene los derechos al uso de la marca Havana Club en
EEUU.

''Están implicando que este es un producto cubano, a pesar de que saben
que no lo es'', dijo Mark Orr, vicepresidente de asuntos de Norteamérica
para Pernod Ricard. ``Un consumidor conocedor espera que el Havana Club
se haga en Cuba, de azúcar cubana''.

Pero la portavoz de Bacardí, Patricia Neal, dice que las alegaciones son
''incorrectas'' y que la compañía tiene intención de ``mantener su marca''.

''En ninguna parte de la etiqueta dice que el ron Havana Club se hace en
Cuba'', dijo Neal, señalando que la botella dice claramente que es ron
de Puerto Rico. ``El ron es un producto que no tiene una designación
geográfica, como el champán, el scotch, coñac o bourbon, que por ley
debe producirse en una región específica. El ron puede hacerse en
lugares y formas diferentes''.

La demanda de Pernod Ricard llega sólo dos semanas después que la
Oficina de Marcas y Patentes de EEUU consideró que la actual inscripción
de la marca Havana Club había ''expirado/cancelado''. La marca era
mantenida por Cubaexport, una compañía del gobierno cubano que tiene
negocios con Pernod Ricard para vender el Havana Club en Cuba y
alrededor del mundo, pero no en EEUU debido al embargo comercial. Pernod
Ricard dijo que apelaría. Bacardí tiene una solicitud pendiente de
registro de marca en EEUU para el Havana Club, que la compañía compró de
la familia Arechabala que creó el ron en 1935. El gobierno de Castro
confiscó la planta y la marca de la familia el 1ro de enero de 1960.

ewalker@MiamiHerald.com

http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/business/15...

1 Answer

DMJoshi

2/15/2011 5:39:00 PM

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On Feb 15, 4:25 pm, JR <jack_reac...@ymail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 11:24 am, DMJoshi <josh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 12, 7:57 pm, JR <jack_reac...@ymail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am sick and tired of hearing about how "innocent" these students
> > > are. They are not innocent babe in the woods. They knew exactly what
> > > they were getting into. In India one pays anywhere from 50000 to maybe
> > > even 100000 dollars to "agents" who will help them get a US visa.
> > > These people pay this money so that they can enter the US either on a
> > > tourist visa or on a student visa or on any other visa.
>
> > Were the students issued I-20 by TV University or that was fabricated
> > by the Agents?
>
> They may have been issued the proper visas but the point I am making
> is that the visas were gotten by fraudelent means. That is lying to
> the consulate authorities for what the real purpose was.

Besides giving USD 50k to 100k as you write to the agents I-20 must
have been issued by TVU after collecting one year tuition fee and
lodging-boarding expenses as well as miscellaneous expenses like
books, washing, entertainment, etc etc..

Students also must have presented to the US Consulates in India proofs
of their ability to spend for all remaining years of their studies.
Total with the Agent fees must have come to USD 200k. Any Indian with
that much to spare for a child must be a USD millionaire, would not
he?

Why would such an Indian parent subject their child to kind of illegal
life any where?

> Most if not
> all of the students wanted to come to the US for one purpose and one
> purpose alone. And that is to enter the US in the hope that they can
> come to settle down here. This Tri valley university was nothing but a
> front for such people

Are you saying that TVU was set up by the parents of the students?

> and the sad part is that there may be many such
> fake universities in the US.

Fake Universities set up by foreigners?


> > Are these Agents working for U.S. Department of Homeland Security or
> > they are appointed by the U.S. Department of State to collect extra
> > money for the USA besides the Fees that TV University collected up-
> > front?


Would you care to respond the second question I put to you and you
ignored it in your follow up?

> > > The goal is to
> > > once enter the US and then try and stay on. Many many people have
> > > entered the US like this. This route of entering on students visa is
> > > quite common in the UK and it seems by the Tri Valley university scam
> > > that it is getting prevalent in the US as well.
>
> > > These students were lucky that they weren't thrown in jail and we
> > > should actually deport them as soon as possible. Let us not get fooled
> > > or suckered into believing their sob story. The reality is that they
> > > knew exactly what they were getting into and their goal was to enter
> > > the US on these false pretences so that they could sneak in. Once in
> > > they felt that they had a good chance to stay on and work illegaly in
> > > the US and later on maybe even try and legalise their status.
>
> > > These fraudsters should be all thrown in jail and all the Indian
> > > students should be immediately deported back to India. The US
> > > government must try and identify other such universities that are
> > > perpetrating this scam in the US.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -