With Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s recent signing of Senate Bill 953 -- the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (TUTSA) -- Texas joins 47 other states in adopting a version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA). New York and Massachusetts remain as the only states that have not adopted some version of the UTSA.
Like the UTSA, which was intended to codify and harmonize standards and remedies regarding misappropriation of trade secrets that had emerged in various states’ common law, the TUTSA provides welcome clarification and additional protections to business owners concerned about the protection of their proprietary information. In Texas, the misappropriation of trade secrets has previously been governed by common law, much of which has been codified by the TUTSA; however, the TUTSA provides several important revisions to Texas trade secret law.
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