{"id":2466,"date":"2024-09-03T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/womble-bond-dickinson-mccarter-english-net-nearly-1-2-million-fee-award\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:59:55","slug":"womble-bond-dickinson-mccarter-english-net-nearly-1-2-million-fee-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/womble-bond-dickinson-mccarter-english-net-nearly-1-2-million-fee-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Womble Bond Dickinson, McCarter &#038; English Net Nearly $1.2 Million Fee Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>After earning a $14.7 million jury award for federal trademark infringement claims and North Carolina trade practices violations, a judge awarded the winning attorneys with\u00a0Womble Bond Dickinson and McCarter &amp; English only a quarter of the requested $4.78 million in fees.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0ruling issued\u00a0Aug. 23 in the case,\u00a0<em>Hayward Industries v. BlueWorks<\/em>,\u00a0U.S. District\u00a0Judge\u00a0Max O. Cogburn Jr. of\u00a0the Western District of North Carolina awarded the plaintiff, a manufacturer a salt sanitizing system for pools, $1.19 million in attorney fees for one of four claims.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/190050\/show_temp.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In his written opinion for the court<\/a>, Cogburn said that Hayward Industries was only\u00a0entitled to collect fees on the Lanham Act claim lodged against\u00a0competing salt chlorinator system distributors, BlueWorks Corp.,\u00a0Ningbo C.F. Electronic Tech and Ningbo Yishang Import and Export.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After earning a $14.7 million jury award for federal trademark infringement claims and North Carolina trade practices violations, a judge awarded the winning attorneys with\u00a0Womble Bond Dickinson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1202,2792,3254,3256,717,3255,1159,3080,3253],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-award","tag-bond","tag-dickinson","tag-english","tag-fee","tag-mccarter","tag-million","tag-net","tag-womble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}