Engineer A BER 86-6 Team Credit Sole Authorship Misrepresentation Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/134#Engineer_A_BER_86-6_Team_Credit_Sole_Authorship_Misrepresentation_Violation
Properties
Instance of
ResumeTeamContributionSoleAuthorshipMisrepresentationProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResumeTeamContributionSoleAuthorshipMisrepresentationProhibitionObligation
Case context
Engineer A, one of six equal-rank staff engineers at Employer X, participated in joint design of patented products; submitted resume to Employer Y implying personal sole responsibility for those products.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (BER 86-6)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from implying on his resume submitted to Employer Y that he was personally and solely responsible for the design of patented products that were in fact jointly designed by a six-person team of equal-rank engineers, and violated this obligation by framing his resume in a manner intended to obscure the team nature of the work.
Temporal scope
At the time of submitting the resume to Employer Y
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Implied Sole Credit - BER 86-6
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products that were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team.
Text references
Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products that were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team.
Such statements, said the Board, are intentionally designed to mislead a potential employer by obscuring the truth.
although Engineer A did not specifically state that he was personally responsible for the work in question, Engineer A implied such in a manner intended to obscure truth to a prospective employer.
TTL
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case134:Engineer_A_BER_86-6_Team_Credit_Sole_Authorship_Misrepresentation_Violation a proeth:ResumeTeamContributionSoleAuthorshipMisrepresentationProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A BER 86-6 Team Credit Sole Authorship Misrepresentation Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case134:Engineer_Doe_BER_72-11_Resume_Emphasis_Permissibility_Boundary_Compliance ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case134:Engineer_A_Implied_Sole_Credit_-_BER_86-6 ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case134:Engineer_Doe_BER_72-11_Resume_Emphasis_Permissibility_Boundary_Compliance ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A, one of six equal-rank staff engineers at Employer X, participated in joint design of patented products; submitted resume to Employer Y implying personal sole responsibility for those products." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case134:Engineer_A_BER_86-6_Team_Credit_Misrepresentation_Violation,
case134:Resume_Selective_Emphasis_Misrepresentation_By_Engineer_A_BER_86-6_Team_Credit ;
proeth:discoveredincase "134" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T21:22:35.843573+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "134" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T21:22:35.843573+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (BER 86-6)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Resume Team Contribution Sole Authorship Misrepresentation Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from implying on his resume submitted to Employer Y that he was personally and solely responsible for the design of patented products that were in fact jointly designed by a six-person team of equal-rank engineers, and violated this obligation by framing his resume in a manner intended to obscure the team nature of the work." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products that were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of submitting the resume to Employer Y" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products that were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team.",
"Such statements, said the Board, are intentionally designed to mislead a potential employer by obscuring the truth.",
"although Engineer A did not specifically state that he was personally responsible for the work in question, Engineer A implied such in a manner intended to obscure truth to a prospective employer." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 134 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T21:30:32.618729"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
134
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T21:22:35.843573+00:00
First case
134
Generated
2026-02-28T21:22:35.843573+00:00
Attributed to
Case 134 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T21:30:32.618729
Generated by
ProEthica Case 134 Extraction