Engineer A Current-Client Covert Solicitation During Active Employment Prohibition BER-82
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Engineer_A_Current-Client_Covert_Solicitation_During_Active_Employment_Prohibition_BER-82
Properties
Instance of
Current-ClientCovertSolicitationDuringActiveEmploymentProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Current-ClientCovertSolicitationDuringActiveEmploymentProhibitionObligation
Case context
Engineer A received a termination notice from Engineer B in November 1982 but remained employed during a notice period. During this period, Engineer A contacted Engineer B's current clients — not former clients — to notify them of his new firm and offer professional services, without informing Engineer B of these solicitation activities.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from covertly soliciting Engineer B's current clients for competing professional services while still employed by Engineer B during the notice period, without disclosing such solicitation to Engineer B.
Temporal scope
From receipt of termination notice (November 1982) through actual departure date
Source Evidence
Source text
In the instant case Engineer A notified 'current' and not former clients of Engineer B and offered professional services to them.
Text references
Engineer A was still employed by Engineer B when Engineer A notified the clients and others of the offer of professional services.
In the instant case Engineer A notified 'current' and not former clients of Engineer B and offered professional services to them.
it is concluded that Engineer A violated Section I.4. by failing to act as a faithful employee.
TTL
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case171:Engineer_A_Current-Client_Covert_Solicitation_During_Active_Employment_Prohibition_BER-82 a proeth:Current-ClientCovertSolicitationDuringActiveEmploymentProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Current-Client Covert Solicitation During Active Employment Prohibition BER-82" ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A received a termination notice from Engineer B in November 1982 but remained employed during a notice period. During this period, Engineer A contacted Engineer B's current clients — not former clients — to notify them of his new firm and offer professional services, without informing Engineer B of these solicitation activities." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case171:Current-Client_Solicitation_During_Active_Employment_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_A,
case171:Loyalty_Obligation_Tension_in_Engineer_A_Pre-Departure_Solicitation ;
proeth:discoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Current-Client Covert Solicitation During Active Employment Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from covertly soliciting Engineer B's current clients for competing professional services while still employed by Engineer B during the notice period, without disclosing such solicitation to Engineer B." ;
proeth:sourcetext "In the instant case Engineer A notified 'current' and not former clients of Engineer B and offered professional services to them." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From receipt of termination notice (November 1982) through actual departure date" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A was still employed by Engineer B when Engineer A notified the clients and others of the offer of professional services.",
"In the instant case Engineer A notified 'current' and not former clients of Engineer B and offered professional services to them.",
"it is concluded that Engineer A violated Section I.4. by failing to act as a faithful employee." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.290436"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
171
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:40:34.949168+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.290436
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction