There’s nothing like a sprinkling of Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s blunt assessments to salt a lawyer’s entrepreneurial ambitions.
Edward Durney, a patent lawyer who hit it big during the dot-com boom and then tried to get into the electric car business , recently got an earful from Patel, although he escaped sanctions in an order earlier this month. Durney had filed a lawsuit in an attempt to buy a promising electric and hybrid car motor company called BluWav that he came to know by doing its patent work. His claim was that a large Canadian auto parts company named Magna International had promised to work with him to buy it, used all the inside info he had, and then squeezed him out of the deal.
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