Intellectual Integrity in Authorship Violated by Omission of Co-Designers
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Intellectual_Integrity_in_Authorship_Violated_by_Omission_of_Co-Designers
Properties
Instance of
IntellectualIntegrityinAuthorship
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#IntellectualIntegrityinAuthorship
Applied to
Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y
Patented products jointly designed by six-member team
Balancing with
Competitive employment-seeking interests
Concrete expression
Engineer A misrepresents the intellectual origins of the patented products by omitting the material contributions of five co-equal team members, implying that the intellectual and design work was solely his own when it was collectively produced
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Interpretation
Intellectual integrity in authorship requires that engineers accurately represent not only that they contributed to a work product, but that others contributed equally; the omission of co-inventors and co-designers from a resume description of jointly-patented products violates the principle's requirement to avoid misrepresentation that the work is solely or independently one's own
Invoked by
Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
Tension resolution
Intellectual integrity is not negotiable in the employment-seeking context; the fact that co-contributors are not present to assert their credit makes accurate attribution more, not less, important
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products
Text references
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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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Intellectual Integrity in Authorship Violated by Omission of Co-Designers" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y",
"Patented products jointly designed by six-member team" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive employment-seeking interests" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A misrepresents the intellectual origins of the patented products by omitting the material contributions of five co-equal team members, implying that the intellectual and design work was solely his own when it was collectively produced" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Intellectual integrity in authorship requires that engineers accurately represent not only that they contributed to a work product, but that others contributed equally; the omission of co-inventors and co-designers from a resume description of jointly-patented products violates the principle's requirement to avoid misrepresentation that the work is solely or independently one's own" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Intellectual Integrity in Authorship" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Intellectual integrity is not negotiable in the employment-seeking context; the fact that co-contributors are not present to assert their credit makes accurate attribution more, not less, important" ;
proeth:textreferences "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 "2026-03-01T15:57:44.743736"^^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
2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00
First case
135
Generated
2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00
Attributed to
Case 135 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T15:57:44.743736
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction