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"If I were you, I wouldn''t go through customs with him. He can be a putz." Judge Robert Sweet of the Southern District of New York ruled that the case brought by Empresa Cubana del Tabaco ("Cubatabaco") against General cohiba cigar in November 1997 over the ownership of the trademark COHIBA in the United States will proceed to trial.
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Bobby was from Chicago. He was in town for the annual cohiba cigar Fair. Like us, he''d come through a third country, in violation of the embargo. But he said he also had a license to travel to Cuba to supply hospital equipment, under a humanitarian exemption to the embargo.
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