Image of the Havana Club rum, which is made in Puerto Rico, that Bacardi sells in Florida Courtesy Bacardi U.S.A.

Prototype bottles for Havanista, a premium Cuban rum that French spirits giant Pernod Ricard says it will distribute after the embargo is lifted. The trademark is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Courtesy Pernod Ricard

Bottles of Havana Club rum sit on display during a video conference between the Havana Club rum company in Havana and their associates in Paris at Pernod Ricard in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Time and again U.S. courts have ruled against Cuba in its fight to control the U.S. rights to the trademark Havana Club, the island's flagship rum brand which is sold in more than 120 countries around the world, but not in the United States. Franklin Reyes / AP

A cartoon emphasizing U.S. designs on the Havana Club brand that appeared recently in the Web edition of Granma, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba Granma