An Atlanta-based wireless communications research development company, IPCO LLC, accused a provider of electricity metering products, Elster Electricity LLC, of patent infringement. IPCO LLC will seek upwards of $100 million in damages, according to sources from IPCO LLC. According to IPCO LLC, Elster Electricity Energy Axis System willfully and deliberately infringes IPCO's U.S. Patent No. 6,249,516, which was issued to the plaintiff in 2001. IPCO filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. "IPCO has suffered damages as a result of Elster's infringement of the '516 Patent and will continue to suffer damages and irreparable harm in the future unless Elster is enjoined from infringing further the '516 Patent," said Joel Goldman, vice president general counsel for IPCO LLC.

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