The former executives of battery startup Envia, who sued the company for alleged fraud in the inducement of employment and wrongful termination, have now asked the court to dismiss that case without prejudice. “Without prejudice” means that the plaintiffs preserve the right to refile the case at a later date. The documents were filed on January 16.

The case was complex and much of it rested on another lawsuit that was filed against Envia back in 2012 that had been on hold for awhile. That former suit was from a nanotech startup called NanoeXa Corporation; it claimed that one of its early employees had left the company with NanoeXa‘s IP in order to use it in Envia’s battery technology. Quartz writer Steve LeVine does a good job of looking at the complexities of the two cases.

This more recent lawsuit, filed by former Envia CEO Atul Kapadia, and former executives Hari…