Business Development Representative Firm Licensure Prerequisite Ethical Activity

@prefix case128: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case128:Business_Development_Representative_Firm_Licensure_Prerequisite_Ethical_Activity a proeth:BusinessDevelopmentRepresentativeFirmLicensurePrerequisiteComplianceObligation, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Business Development Representative Firm Licensure Prerequisite Ethical Activity" ; proeth-core:competesWith case128:Engineer_A_Multi-State_Advertising_State_Registration_Law_Conformance ; proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case128:Situation_3_Counterfactual_-_Unlicensed_Firm_Business_Development_Solicitation ; proeth-core:prevailsOver case128:Engineer_A_Multi-State_Advertising_State_Registration_Law_Conformance ; proeth:casecontext "The Board addresses the scenario of a business development engineer who tenders cards at business and social functions in states where the representative is not personally licensed, and establishes the firm-licensure prerequisite as the ethical boundary condition." ; proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ; proeth:confidence "0.92" ; proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Business_Development_Representative_Firm-Licensure_Prerequisite_—_Ethical_Activity> ; proeth:discoveredincase "128" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "128" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:obligatedparty "Business Development Marketing Engineer / Engineering Firm" ; proeth:obligationclass "Business Development Representative Firm Licensure Prerequisite Compliance Obligation" ; proeth:obligationstatement "A business development representative of an engineering firm may ethically tender business cards and engage in business development in a state where the representative is not personally licensed only if the firm itself has engineers duly licensed in that state; if the firm is not licensed in the state, the representative must not engage in business development activities there." ; proeth:sourcetext "it is within the bounds of ethical activity for a representative of an engineering firm – for example, an engineer who focuses on business development – to tender business cards at both business and social functions in such states, even if that person is not personally licensed in the state, provided that the firm which the person represents does have engineers who are duly licensed in the state" ; proeth:temporalscope "Whenever business development activities are conducted in a state" ; proeth:textreferences "This type of situation amounts to deception and goes beyond the fact of tendering a business card", "it is within the bounds of ethical activity for a representative of an engineering firm – for example, an engineer who focuses on business development – to tender business cards at both business and social functions in such states, even if that person is not personally licensed in the state, provided that the firm which the person represents does have engineers who are duly licensed in the state", "this Board feels it would not be ethical for this same (business development) engineer to engage in business development activities if that person's firm did not have engineers who were duly licensed in the state" ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.661790"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 128 Extraction" .