Qualification Proposal Attribution Integrity Applied to Team-Designed Patents
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Qualification_Proposal_Attribution_Integrity_Applied_to_Team-Designed_Patents
Properties
Instance of
QualificationProposalAttributionIntegrity
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#QualificationProposalAttributionIntegrity
Applied to
Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y
Patented products designed at Employer X
Balancing with
Competitive employment interests
Concrete expression
Engineer A's resume fails to provide clear attribution of the team context and his specific role within the six-member design team, instead presenting the jointly-designed and jointly-patented products as if they were his unconditional individual accomplishment
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
Attribution integrity requires that when engineers list prior-employer work products on qualification documents, they accurately represent not only the prior employer context but also the collaborative team structure that produced the work; omitting co-equal team members' roles misrepresents the engineer's unconditional ownership of the intellectual achievement
Invoked by
Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
Tension resolution
Attribution integrity requires disclosure of team context; Engineer A may legitimately claim credit for his individual contribution as one of six co-equal designers but not for the whole
Source Evidence
Source text
While working for Employer X, 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 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
While working for Employer X, Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products
TTL
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case135:Qualification_Proposal_Attribution_Integrity_Applied_to_Team-Designed_Patents a proeth:QualificationProposalAttributionIntegrity,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Qualification Proposal Attribution Integrity Applied to Team-Designed Patents" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y",
"Patented products designed at Employer X" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive employment interests" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's resume fails to provide clear attribution of the team context and his specific role within the six-member design team, instead presenting the jointly-designed and jointly-patented products as if they were his unconditional individual accomplishment" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
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 "Attribution integrity requires that when engineers list prior-employer work products on qualification documents, they accurately represent not only the prior employer context but also the collaborative team structure that produced the work; omitting co-equal team members' roles misrepresents the engineer's unconditional ownership of the intellectual achievement" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Qualification Proposal Attribution Integrity" ;
proeth:sourcetext "While working for Employer X, 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 "Attribution integrity requires disclosure of team context; Engineer A may legitimately claim credit for his individual contribution as one of six co-equal designers but not for the whole" ;
proeth:textreferences "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",
"While working for Employer X, 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:wasattributedto "Case 135 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:57:44.744041"^^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
2026-03-01T15:57:44.744041
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction