Competitive Employment Freedom Invoked for Engineer A Post-Departure Solicitation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#Competitive_Employment_Freedom_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Departure_Solicitation
Properties
Instance of
CompetitiveEmploymentFreedomWithConfidentialityConstraint
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetitiveEmploymentFreedomWithConfidentialityConstraint
Applied to
Engineer A's general solicitation of ABC's former clients
Engineer A's solicitation of Clover City after one year
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Post-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Prohibition
Concrete expression
Engineer A's solicitation of ABC's clients, including Clover City, after one year is permissible under the principle of competitive employment freedom, provided he does not exploit confidential or proprietary information developed during his employment at ABC
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Interpretation
The absence of a no-compete agreement and the passage of a reasonable transition period make the solicitation permissible; the constraint is that ABC's proprietary report content and client-specific data may not be exploited
Invoked by
Engineer A Voluntary Non-Solicitation Period Departing Engineer
Tension resolution
Competitive freedom prevails for general solicitation; confidentiality constraint applies to specific proprietary information from ABC engagements
Source Evidence
Source text
after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City. There was no 'no-compete agreement' between Engineer A and ABC Engineering Company.
Text references
There was no 'no-compete agreement' between Engineer A and ABC Engineering Company.
after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City
TTL
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case178:Competitive_Employment_Freedom_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Departure_Solicitation a proeth:CompetitiveEmploymentFreedomWithConfidentialityConstraint,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Competitive Employment Freedom Invoked for Engineer A Post-Departure Solicitation" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's general solicitation of ABC's former clients",
"Engineer A's solicitation of Clover City after one year" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits",
"Post-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Prohibition" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's solicitation of ABC's clients, including Clover City, after one year is permissible under the principle of competitive employment freedom, provided he does not exploit confidential or proprietary information developed during his employment at ABC" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:27:34.942228+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:27:34.942228+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The absence of a no-compete agreement and the passage of a reasonable transition period make the solicitation permissible; the constraint is that ABC's proprietary report content and client-specific data may not be exploited" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Voluntary Non-Solicitation Period Departing Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint" ;
proeth:sourcetext "after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City. There was no 'no-compete agreement' between Engineer A and ABC Engineering Company." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Competitive freedom prevails for general solicitation; confidentiality constraint applies to specific proprietary information from ABC engagements" ;
proeth:textreferences "There was no 'no-compete agreement' between Engineer A and ABC Engineering Company.",
"after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 178 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T08:48:26.010858"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 178 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
178
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:27:34.942228+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:27:34.942228+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.010858
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction