MISAPPROPRIATION OF TRADE SECRETS
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Via Net v. TIG Insurance Co. (2006)
Most recently applied in AGAR Corporation, Inc. v. Electro Circuits International, LLC and Suresh Parikh (December 2016)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 26, Sec. 1, eff
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.
(a) A person must bring suit for misappropriation of trade secrets not later than three years after the misappropriation is discovered or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have been discovered.
(b) A misappropriation of trade secrets that continues over time is a single cause of action and the limitations period described by Subsection (a) begins running without regard to whether the misappropriation is a single or continuing act.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.