Confidentiality Obligation of Engineer A Toward Company X Regulatory Submissions
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/106#Confidentiality_Obligation_of_Engineer_A_Toward_Company_X_Regulatory_Submissions
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Company X's confidential and proprietary design information submitted to the government agency
Balancing with
Engineer's professional mobility
Loyalty to new employer Company Y
Concrete expression
Engineer A's access to Company X's confidential and proprietary design information during government agency employment creates a confidentiality obligation that prohibits disclosure or competitive exploitation of that information after leaving the agency
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
In this context, confidentiality requires Engineer A to treat Company X's proprietary design information as protected from disclosure to or use by Company Y, regardless of the change in employment status, because the information was received in a relationship of regulatory trust
Invoked by
Engineer A Confidentiality-Bound Government Agency Engineer
Tension resolution
Confidentiality obligations to Company X's proprietary information persist after employment ends and are not dissolved by the engineer's transition to private employment with a competitor
Source Evidence
Source text
During Engineer A's tenure with the government agency, Engineer A receives access to confidential and proprietary design information provided by companies seeking approval from the government agency for their facility designs.
Text references
Company X is among the companies submitting confidential and proprietary design information.
During Engineer A's tenure with the government agency, Engineer A receives access to confidential and proprietary design information provided by companies seeking approval from the government agency for their facility designs.
TTL
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case106:Confidentiality_Obligation_of_Engineer_A_Toward_Company_X_Regulatory_Submissions a proeth:Confidentiality,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Obligation of Engineer A Toward Company X Regulatory Submissions" ;
proeth:appliedto "Company X's confidential and proprietary design information submitted to the government agency" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Engineer's professional mobility",
"Loyalty to new employer Company Y" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's access to Company X's confidential and proprietary design information during government agency employment creates a confidentiality obligation that prohibits disclosure or competitive exploitation of that information after leaving the agency" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "106" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T00:42:50.377784+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "106" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T00:42:50.377784+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "In this context, confidentiality requires Engineer A to treat Company X's proprietary design information as protected from disclosure to or use by Company Y, regardless of the change in employment status, because the information was received in a relationship of regulatory trust" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Confidentiality-Bound Government Agency Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Confidentiality" ;
proeth:sourcetext "During Engineer A's tenure with the government agency, Engineer A receives access to confidential and proprietary design information provided by companies seeking approval from the government agency for their facility designs." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Confidentiality obligations to Company X's proprietary information persist after employment ends and are not dissolved by the engineer's transition to private employment with a competitor" ;
proeth:textreferences "Company X is among the companies submitting confidential and proprietary design information.",
"During Engineer A's tenure with the government agency, Engineer A receives access to confidential and proprietary design information provided by companies seeking approval from the government agency for their facility designs." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 106 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T00:58:47.913698"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 106 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
106
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T00:42:50.377784+00:00
First case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:42:50.377784+00:00
Attributed to
Case 106 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T00:58:47.913698
Generated by
ProEthica Case 106 Extraction