The Uniform Trade Secrets Act (U.T.S.A.), published by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) 1979 and amended in 1985, was a uniform act promulgated in an effort to provide legal framework for improved trade secret protection for industry in all 50 states within the United States of America. The U.T.S.A. aimed to codify and harmonize standards and remedies regarding misappropriation of trade secrets that had emerged in common law on a state to state basis.
As of February 2012, framework of the U.T.S.A. was enacted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, and U.S. Virgin Islands. Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Texas had not adopted the U.T.S.A. In 2011, the U.T.S.A. was introduced in the state legislatures of Massachusetts (H.B. 23).
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