Engineer A-B-Client Three-Party Departure Balancing
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Engineer_A-B-Client_Three-Party_Departure_Balancing
Properties
Instance of
Three-PartyEngineerDepartureInterestBalancingState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Three-PartyEngineerDepartureInterestBalancingState
Active period
Throughout the Board's analysis of the case
Affected parties
Engineer A
Engineer B
Engineer B's clients
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
The tripartite balancing of Engineer A's mobility rights, Engineer B's goodwill interests, and clients' free choice of engineer
Terminated by
Board's resolution establishing that post-employment competition with former clients is permissible but current-client solicitation while employed is not
Triggering event
Engineer A's departure from Engineer B's firm and subsequent competitive solicitation of Engineer B's clients
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
We do not mean to suggest than an employee who severs all ties with the employer and then seeks to contact clients of the employer in order to offer engineering services is in violation of the Code
Text references
Nor do we wish to suggest any restraint exists upon one's absolute right to select in all cases, the engineer of one's choice
We do not mean to suggest than an employee who severs all ties with the employer and then seeks to contact clients of the employer in order to offer engineering services is in violation of the Code
We have often held that (the Code) is not to be interpreted to give an engineer or firm a right to prevent other engineers from attempting to serve former clients of other firms
TTL
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case171:Engineer_A-B-Client_Three-Party_Departure_Balancing a proeth:Three-PartyEngineerDepartureInterestBalancingState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A-B-Client Three-Party Departure Balancing" ;
proeth:activeperiod "Throughout the Board's analysis of the case" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Engineer A",
"Engineer B",
"Engineer B's clients" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:26:22.110301+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:26:22.110301+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "We do not mean to suggest than an employee who severs all ties with the employer and then seeks to contact clients of the employer in order to offer engineering services is in violation of the Code" ;
proeth:stateclass "Three-Party Engineer Departure Interest Balancing State" ;
proeth:subject "The tripartite balancing of Engineer A's mobility rights, Engineer B's goodwill interests, and clients' free choice of engineer" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Board's resolution establishing that post-employment competition with former clients is permissible but current-client solicitation while employed is not" ;
proeth:textreferences "Nor do we wish to suggest any restraint exists upon one's absolute right to select in all cases, the engineer of one's choice",
"We do not mean to suggest than an employee who severs all ties with the employer and then seeks to contact clients of the employer in order to offer engineering services is in violation of the Code",
"We have often held that (the Code) is not to be interpreted to give an engineer or firm a right to prevent other engineers from attempting to serve former clients of other firms" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Engineer A's departure from Engineer B's firm and subsequent competitive solicitation of Engineer B's clients" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.270596"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
171
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:26:22.110301+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:26:22.110301+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.270596
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction