Engineer A Withdrawn Competitor Status Accurate Disclosure Negotiation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/134#Engineer_A_Withdrawn_Competitor_Status_Accurate_Disclosure_Negotiation
Properties
Instance of
FullCircumstanceDisclosureinProfessionalNegotiationsObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FullCircumstanceDisclosureinProfessionalNegotiationsObligation
Case context
Engineer A, acting as chief negotiator in the sale of a small engineering subsidiary, referenced Engineer C's earlier interest to Engineer B without disclosing that Engineer C had since conclusively withdrawn that interest, thereby creating a false impression of active competition to pressure Engineer B into accelerating negotiations.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to disclose to Engineer B that Engineer C had definitively decided not to purchase the subsidiary, rather than allowing Engineer B to believe Engineer C remained an active competing buyer.
Temporal scope
At the moment Engineer A chose to reference Engineer C's interest in negotiations with Engineer B — after Engineer C had definitively withdrawn
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Full Disclosure of Engineer C Circumstances as Conditional Defense
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer C had expressed some initial interest in buying the subsidiary, but following consideration, Engineer C decided she was definitely not interested in purchasing the subsidiary.
Text references
Engineer A tells Engineer B, 'Another company has expressed an interest in buying our subsidiary, so you had better move quickly if you are interested.'
Engineer C had expressed some initial interest in buying the subsidiary, but following consideration, Engineer C decided she was definitely not interested in purchasing the subsidiary.
TTL
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case134:Engineer_A_Withdrawn_Competitor_Status_Accurate_Disclosure_Negotiation a proeth:FullCircumstanceDisclosureinProfessionalNegotiationsObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Withdrawn Competitor Status Accurate Disclosure Negotiation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case134:Engineer_A_Business_Negotiation_Competitive_Misrepresentation_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case134:Engineer_A_Business_Negotiation_Competitive_Misrepresentation_Prohibition ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A, acting as chief negotiator in the sale of a small engineering subsidiary, referenced Engineer C's earlier interest to Engineer B without disclosing that Engineer C had since conclusively withdrawn that interest, thereby creating a false impression of active competition to pressure Engineer B into accelerating negotiations." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case134:Full_Disclosure_of_Engineer_C_Circumstances_as_Conditional_Defense ;
proeth:discoveredincase "134" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T21:17:04.638361+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "134" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T21:17:04.638361+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Full Circumstance Disclosure in Professional Negotiations Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to disclose to Engineer B that Engineer C had definitively decided not to purchase the subsidiary, rather than allowing Engineer B to believe Engineer C remained an active competing buyer." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer C had expressed some initial interest in buying the subsidiary, but following consideration, Engineer C decided she was definitely not interested in purchasing the subsidiary." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the moment Engineer A chose to reference Engineer C's interest in negotiations with Engineer B — after Engineer C had definitively withdrawn" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A tells Engineer B, 'Another company has expressed an interest in buying our subsidiary, so you had better move quickly if you are interested.'",
"Engineer C had expressed some initial interest in buying the subsidiary, but following consideration, Engineer C decided she was definitely not interested in purchasing the subsidiary." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 134 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T21:30:32.614930"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 134 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
134
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T21:17:04.638361+00:00
First case
134
Generated
2026-02-28T21:17:04.638361+00:00
Attributed to
Case 134 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T21:30:32.614930
Generated by
ProEthica Case 134 Extraction