Engineer A Prior-Employer Patent Credit Scope Limitation Resume
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Engineer_A_Prior-Employer_Patent_Credit_Scope_Limitation_Resume
Properties
Instance of
Prior-EmployerProjectCreditScopeLimitationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Prior-EmployerProjectCreditScopeLimitationObligation
Case context
Engineer A lists jointly-patented products from his employment at Employer X on his resume without disclosing the team context or his specific role, implying sole or primary design credit for work that was equally shared among six engineers.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to limit his claims of credit for the patented products designed at Employer X to his specific personal contributions as one of six equal-rank team members, and to disclose the team context and his specific role rather than claiming undifferentiated credit for the full jointly-designed product line.
Temporal scope
At the time of preparing and submitting the resume to Employer Y
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Joint Team Design Credit Held by Six Engineers
derivedFromPrinciple
Qualification Proposal Attribution Integrity Applied to Team-Designed Patents
Source Evidence
Source text
As an employee for Employer X, Engineer A was a staff engineer along with five other staff engineers of equal rank.
Text references
As an employee for Employer X, Engineer A was a staff engineer along with five other staff engineers of equal rank.
Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products.
Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products which were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team.
TTL
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case135:Engineer_A_Prior-Employer_Patent_Credit_Scope_Limitation_Resume a proeth:Prior-EmployerProjectCreditScopeLimitationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Prior-Employer Patent Credit Scope Limitation Resume" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case135:Joint_Team_Design_Credit_Held_by_Six_Engineers ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A lists jointly-patented products from his employment at Employer X on his resume without disclosing the team context or his specific role, implying sole or primary design credit for work that was equally shared among six engineers." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case135:Qualification_Proposal_Attribution_Integrity_Applied_to_Team-Designed_Patents ;
proeth:discoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T15:43:03.046583+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T15:43:03.046583+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Prior-Employer Project Credit Scope Limitation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to limit his claims of credit for the patented products designed at Employer X to his specific personal contributions as one of six equal-rank team members, and to disclose the team context and his specific role rather than claiming undifferentiated credit for the full jointly-designed product line." ;
proeth:sourcetext "As an employee for Employer X, Engineer A was a staff engineer along with five other staff engineers of equal rank." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of preparing and submitting the resume to Employer Y" ;
proeth:textreferences "As an employee for Employer X, Engineer A was a staff engineer along with five other staff engineers of equal rank.",
"Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products.",
"Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products which were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 135 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:57:44.747747"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 135 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
135
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T15:43:03.046583+00:00
First case
135
Generated
2026-03-01T15:43:03.046583+00:00
Attributed to
Case 135 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T15:57:44.747747
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction