Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-25-1707 (2026)
Statute of limitations
✓ current as of May 2026
An action for misappropriation must be brought within three (3) years after the misappropriation is discovered or, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, should have been discovered. For the purposes of this section, a continuing misappropriation by any person constitutes a single claim against that person, but this section shall be applied separately to any claim against each other person who receives a trade secret from another person who misappropriated that trade secret.
Acts 2000, ch. 647, § 7.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2010–2020 · leading case: ReMedPar, Inc. v. AllParts Med., LLC, 683 F. Supp. 2d 605 (M.D. Tenn. 2010).
ReMedPar, Inc. v. AllParts Med., LLC, 683 F. Supp. 2d 605 (M.D. Tenn. 2010). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 47-25-1707. The Tennessee Personal and Commercial Computer Act of 2003 does not contain its own limitations period, but even presuming claims thereunder are subject to the one-year statute of limitations that applies to torts, Tenn.”
Clarence Hight v. Donald Ryan Tramel (Tenn. Ct. App. 2020). “The trial court explained that the statute of limitations for violations of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act was three years, Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-25-1707 , and the statute of limitations for the unfair competition claim would be either one year under Tennessee Code Annotated…”
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