Engineer A Voluntary Non-Solicitation Period One Year Compliance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#Engineer_A_Voluntary_Non-Solicitation_Period_One_Year_Compliance
Properties
Instance of
VoluntaryNon-SolicitationPeriodEthicalTransitionComplianceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#VoluntaryNon-SolicitationPeriodEthicalTransitionComplianceObligation
Case context
After departing ABC and establishing his own firm, Engineer A waited over a year before soliciting Clover City's business, demonstrating voluntary restraint beyond what was legally required.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A voluntarily refrained from soliciting ABC's clients, including Clover City, for approximately six months to over a year after establishing his independent firm, fulfilling the voluntary non-solicitation commitment he had undertaken as an ethical transition practice.
Temporal scope
From departure from ABC through the voluntary non-solicitation period of approximately six months to over one year
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Voluntary One-Year Solicitation Moratorium
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A still declined an apparent offer of work by Clover City, decided not to compete directly with his former employer, ABC, and waited for a period of over a year before deciding to go into competition with his former employer, ABC
Text references
Engineer A still declined an apparent offer of work by Clover City, decided not to compete directly with his former employer, ABC, and waited for a period of over a year before deciding to go into competition with his former employer, ABC
While Clover City may have expressed preliminary interest in Engineer A's future services, there was no formal agreement between Engineer A and the city and no guarantee that with the passage of the year, Engineer A's solicitations for work would be positively received by Clover City
TTL
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case178:Engineer_A_Voluntary_Non-Solicitation_Period_One_Year_Compliance a proeth:VoluntaryNon-SolicitationPeriodEthicalTransitionComplianceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Voluntary Non-Solicitation Period One Year Compliance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case178:Engineer_A_Post-Employment_Solicitation_Permissibility_After_Voluntary_Period ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case178:Engineer_A_Voluntary_One-Year_Solicitation_Moratorium ;
proeth:casecontext "After departing ABC and establishing his own firm, Engineer A waited over a year before soliciting Clover City's business, demonstrating voluntary restraint beyond what was legally required." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case178:Voluntary_Non-Solicitation_Period_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Six-Month_Restraint,
case178:Voluntary_Non-Solicitation_Period_Demonstrated_by_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:38:32.552396+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:38:32.552396+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Voluntary Non-Solicitation Period Ethical Transition Compliance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A voluntarily refrained from soliciting ABC's clients, including Clover City, for approximately six months to over a year after establishing his independent firm, fulfilling the voluntary non-solicitation commitment he had undertaken as an ethical transition practice." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A still declined an apparent offer of work by Clover City, decided not to compete directly with his former employer, ABC, and waited for a period of over a year before deciding to go into competition with his former employer, ABC" ;
proeth:temporalscope "From departure from ABC through the voluntary non-solicitation period of approximately six months to over one year" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A still declined an apparent offer of work by Clover City, decided not to compete directly with his former employer, ABC, and waited for a period of over a year before deciding to go into competition with his former employer, ABC",
"While Clover City may have expressed preliminary interest in Engineer A's future services, there was no formal agreement between Engineer A and the city and no guarantee that with the passage of the year, Engineer A's solicitations for work would be positively received by Clover City" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 178 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T08:48:26.022952"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 178 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
178
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:38:32.552396+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:38:32.552396+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.022952
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction