An action for misappropriation must be brought within three years after the misappropriation is discovered or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have been discovered. For the purposes of this section, a continuing misappropriation constitutes a single claim.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3426.6
UNIFORM TRADE SECRETS ACT
Known as the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
The act spans §§ 3426–3426 (12 sections).
Applied in 30 court decisions — leading case 64 Cal. App. 4th 402 - Kolani v. Gluska (1998)
Most recently applied in Geovector Corp. v. Samsung Electronics Co. (February 2017)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1724, Sec. 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.