Intellectual Property,
Business Law
Dec. 3, 2024
Is reverse engineering misappropriation of trade secrets?
Reverse engineering is generally permissible under federal and state trade secret laws, but contractual obligations may impact its legality.
Reverse engineering refers to the process of working backward from an available product to understand what its parts are, how it functions, and/or how it was made. While California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act does not provide an explicit definition of "reverse engineering," Texas's counterpart helpfully defines it as "the process of studying, analyzing, or disassembling a product or device to discover its design, structure, construction, or source code." Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 134A....
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