Effect of chapter on other law.
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 108 Wash. 2d 38 - Boeing Company v. Sierracin Corporation (2000)
Most recently applied in Bombardier Inc. v. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. (April 2019)
1981 c 286 s 7.
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.
(1) This chapter displaces conflicting tort, restitutionary, and other law of this state pertaining to civil liability for misappropriation of a trade secret.
(2) This chapter does not affect:
(a) Contractual or other civil liability or relief that is not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret; or
(b) Criminal liability for misappropriation of a trade secret.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.