Trade secret litigation duration statistics, by court
Trade secret litigation — DTSA and trade-secret suits in federal court — take a median of 348 days from filing to resolution, based on 3,651 real cases in the public federal court record. Most resolve between 153 days and 3.4 years — full statistics, disposition mix, and district breakdown below.
Filing to termination · 3,651 cases · median 348 days
How trade secret lawsuit cases end
Of 308 resolved cases — the observed record, not a prediction of any one case.
Trade secret litigation duration by court
Median time to resolution in the districts with the most trade secret lawsuit cases.
| District | Cases | Median | Slowest 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.D.N.Y. | 221 | 1.0 yr | 3.9 yr |
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Tertius, "Trade secret litigation: how long federal cases take, and how they end" (2026). Analysis of Federal Judicial Center Integrated Data Base records, 9.1M U.S. federal civil cases. https://usetertius.com/benchmarks/trade-secret-litigation
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Source: data/fjc/civil.parquet (Federal Judicial Center), cleaned by Tertius · model tertius-acta-6. Durations are filing to termination for U.S. federal civil cases. This is observed historical data, not a prediction of any specific case, and not legal advice. Tertius forecasts timing and disposition, never merits or damages.