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.

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