Texas Employers Gain Statutory Protection for Trade Secret Information

Texas has joined 47 other states and the District of Columbia in adopting the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. The new law, Texas Senate Bill 953, which will go into effect on September 1, 2014, provides a number of protections for trade secrets in Texas. New Jersey most recently enacted a law to protect trade secrets in 2012. (See New Jersey Adopts Trade Secret Law.) Now, only Massachusetts and New York have yet to pass some form of the Uniform Trade Secret Act, with Massachusetts providing statutory protection in a different form and New York recognizing common law protection of trade secrets.