Tennessee Code Title 39. Criminal Offenses § 39-14-138

(1) “Article” means any object, material, device, or substance or copy thereof, including any writing, record, recording, drawing, sample, specimen, prototype, model, photograph, micro-organism, blueprint or map;

(2) “Copy” means any facsimile, replica, photograph or other reproduction of an article, and any note, drawing or sketch made of or from an article;

(3) “Representing” means describing, depicting, containing, constituting, reflecting or recording; and

(4) “Trade secret” means the whole or any portion or phrase of any scientific or technical information, design, process, procedure, formula or improvement which is secret and of value. The trier of fact may infer a trade secret to be secret when the owner thereof takes measures to prevent it from becoming available to persons other than those selected by the owner to have access thereto for limited purposes.

(1) Steals or embezzles an article representing a trade secret; or

(2) Without authority makes or causes to be made a copy of an article representing a trade secret.