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Denver – February 24, 2023: Crowell & Moring associate Ryan Seewald has been selected to the 2023 class of the Colorado Diverse Attorney Community Circle (CODACC) program through the Colorado Bar Association.

In a March 30, 2023 decision in Wash World, Inc. v. Belanger Inc., No. 19-C-1562, a case involving infringement of a patent relating to a vehicle spray car washer with a lighted spray arm, Judge William C. Griesbach of the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied a patentee’s motion for treble damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 of the $10,060,000 jury award after the jury had found the accused infringer willfully infringed. However, the court granted the patentee’s motion for attorney’s fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285, finding the case to be exceptional. The court’s award of attorney’s fees was based, in part, on a dismissive statement by the infringer’s corporate representative and president overheard in the courtroom shortly after the jury’s verdict.