TASER Int'l Wins Permanent Injunction In Karbon Patent Infringement Lawsuit

(RTTNews) - TASER International (TASR) announced that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware entered a final judgment on January 10, 2014 in the patent infringement litigation entitled TASER International v. Karbon Arms, LLC awarding TASER a permanent injunction.

The court's final judgment decreed that Karbon Arms' MPID and MPID-C conducted electrical weapons infringe TASER's U.S. Patent Numbers 6,999,295; 7,782,592 and 7,800,885.

The Court also decreed that the TASER patents are valid and enforceable and awarded TASER $2.385 million in damages for infringement.

The permanent injunction restrains and enjoins Karbon Arms and its current and former officers, agents, directors, employees, and affiliates and those persons in participation with them who receive actual notice of the injunction from making, using, offering to sell or selling the Karbon Arms MPID and MPID-C or supplying a substantial portion of the components that are used in the Karbon Arms devices.

The company said that permanent injunction requires Karbon Arms to send written notice of the injunction to each distributor, dealer, sales representative, certified MPID or MPID-C instructor or armorer within 30 days of January 10, 2014.

"This final judgment brings to a close more than six years of various patent litigations between TASER and Karbon Arms and Karbon Arms' predecessor company Stinger Systems, Inc. The Court's order requires Karbon Arms to provide TASER a list of customers who purchased a Karbon Arms MPID or MPID-C within three business days of January 10, 2014 and TASER will be sending notice of the permanent injunction to all such Karbon Arms customers. The company is evaluating the collectability of the judgment," said Doug Klint, TASER's President and General Counsel.