The Recorder
June 3, 2008
A California appellate court has clarified when the clock starts ticking for trade secret holders to sue third parties who have acquired their stolen intellectual property.
Three years after filing a suit over stolen computer source code, the subsequently victorious plaintiff also sued the defendant's customers for having acquired the proprietary information. At question was when the three-year statute of limitations had started -- when the plaintiff filed its original suit, or when it won.
