Bacardi has sent an official request to the US government to reverse its decision to hand the Havana Club rum trademark to the Cuban government. Bacardi have been selling Havana Club in the US since 1994, while the brand name has been sold elsewhere by Pernod Ricard filed a Freedom of Information request to expose the rationale behind a decision to hand the trademark to the Cuban government, which gave Pernod Ricard the right to sell the brand in the US.