Effect on Other Law

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Commercial Instruments and Transactions
4. Trade Practices
5. Uniform Trade Secrets Act
6. Effect on Other Law

1. Except as provided in subsection (b), this part displaces conflicting tort, restitutionary, and other law of this state providing civil remedies for misappropriation of a trade secret.
2. This part does not affect:
   1. Contractual remedies, whether or not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret; provided, that a contractual duty to maintain secrecy or limit use of a trade secret shall not be deemed to be void or unenforceable solely for lack of durational or geographical limitation on the duty;
   2. Other civil remedies that are not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret; or
   3. Criminal remedies, whether or not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret.
3. In no event shall a written contract be required to maintain an action or recover damages for misappropriation of a trade secret proven under this part.

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