Judge Mulls ‘Big’ Fees for Influencer in Impossible Foods Win

A federal judge isn’t inclined to add as much as $2.5 million in damages to a health influencer’s $3.25 million trademark win against Impossible Foods Inc., but is struggling over whether he should be awarded attorneys’ fees.

Joel Runyon and his company Impossible X LLC were “generously compensated” by the jury to rectify Impossible Foods’ infringment, Judge Beth Labson Freeman said Thursday during a hearing in San Jose, Calif., about Impossible X’s motion for additional relief. She called the compensatory damages “startlingly” high, adding “I don’t see any reason to further compensate.”

There was “nothing that seemed frivolous” about Impossible ...