Havana, Dec, 3.- Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez criticized U.S. President Joe Biden, who signed a bill prohibiting the application or validation of marks confiscated by the island's government.
Called stolen trademark law recently signed by Biden amends the law as an aggressive measure against Cuba, the Anti-Antillano country's foreign minister wrote Monday in X.
According to the diplomat, the objective of this rule is precisely to open the door, in violation of international law, for the theft of Cuban trademarks legitimately registered on U.S. territory.
The White House reported that Biden signed a proposal, approved by the U.S. Congress, that prohibits the Patent and Trademark Office from recognizing, enforcing or otherwise validating any claims of rights on such trademarks.
In Cuba there are six thousand 448 registered U.S. trademarks and a thousand 177 in the process of registration, according to the Deputy Director General of the United States Directorate of the Foreign Ministry, Johana Tablada de la Torre.
All are protected by the Cuban Industrial Property Authority, an attitude very different from that adopted by the United States government when signing the Stolen Marks Act, which should be called Bacardí Law, he said on the social network.
Thus, the diplomat alludes to the struggle between Cuba and the company Bacardí for the right to the world distribution of the most emblematic rum of the island, the Havana Club.
Biden initialled the document, while numerous organizations and personalities around the world directly exhort him or in international forums to modify the White House's policy towards Cuba.
Eliminating the economic blockade, reversing the restrictions imposed by Donald Trump in his first term and excluding the country from the list of nation sponsors of terrorism, prepared unilaterally by Washington, are some demands repeatedly enacted. (Text and photo: PL)