Ex-Phazzer Electronics Employee Gets Contempt Conviction Tossed

A woman found guilty of criminal contempt for violating an injunction prohibiting her former employer, now-defunct Phazzer Electronics Inc., from selling certain patent-infringing stun guns won her appeal on Thursday.

The injunction, entered in 2017, didn’t extend broadly enough to bind Diana Robinson, at least under the theories of liability that the government pursued, the US Court Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said.

After Phazzer Electronics shuttered, its owner, Steven Abboud, asked a third party to form a new entity, Phazzer USA, which again began selling the infringing products. It didn’t take long for the patent holder—TASER International Inc., now ...