Texas reasonableness standard
The Texas Covenants Not to Compete Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 15.50) requires a confidentiality restriction to be (a) ancillary to or part of an otherwise enforceable agreement, and (b) contain limitations as to time, geographical area, and scope of activity that are reasonable. Most courts uphold 2-5 year terms with statewide-or-narrower geographic scope. Our template defaults to 3 years.
What's in our Texas NDA template
✓ Mutual or unilateral with party-specific labeling · ✓ Standard carve-outs (publicly known, independently developed, lawfully obtained) · ✓ Optional non-solicit and non-compete clauses calibrated to Texas reasonableness · ✓ Exclusive jurisdiction in Texas (county selectable) · ✓ Texas choice-of-law.