On September 1, 2013, Texas became the 47th state to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act ("UTSA"). The Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act ("TUTSA") provides litigants in Texas with a consolidated and more predictable statutory framework for pursuing trade secret misappropriation disputes. But while TUTSA is based on the same model code as the California UTSA ("CUTSA"), the two states' trade secrets statutes differ in certain key respects.
Read our newsletter to find out how these two states' trade secrets statutes differ and how covenants not to compete are approached in each jurisdiction.
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