( October 17, 2024, 10:36 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Washington granted a motion from Bacardi & Co. Ltd. and its American subsidiary to dismiss a Cuban rum company’s counterclaim in a 20-year-old dispute over the mark HAVANA CLUB, agreeing with Bacardi that the Cuban company was barred from bringing the claim because the mark was confiscated from it....