Nike Will Pay $5 Million to Lontex’s Attorneys in Trademark Suit

Nike Inc. must pay $4.99 million to cover the attorneys’ fees and expenses that Lontex Corp. incurred in litigating to trial a dispute over the sportswear giant’s infringement of the smaller company’s “cool compression” trademark.

Judge Michael M. Baylson awarded Lontex about $4.62 million in attorneys’ fees and $369,263 in expenses, according to the order entered Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The award excludes the $262,687 in costs for the experts that Lontex hired to testify to its damages at trial.

Baylson previously denied Lontex’s bid to recoup those costs on March 17 ...