Post-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Invoked in Engineer A Analysis
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#Post-Employment_Confidential_Information_Non-Use_Invoked_in_Engineer_A_Analysis
Properties
Instance of
Post-EmploymentConfidentialInformationNon-UseProhibition
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-EmploymentConfidentialInformationNon-UseProhibition
Applied to
Engineer A's use of water treatment engineering expertise developed while at ABC
Balancing with
Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint
Specialized Knowledge Constraint on Post-Departure Competition
Concrete expression
The BER's reference to NSPE Code Sections III.4., III.4.a., III.4.b. and the specialized knowledge analysis implicitly invoked the prohibition on using confidential information from a former employer — finding this prohibition inapplicable because Engineer A had not obtained firm-specific confidential or proprietary knowledge
Confidence
0.88
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The confidentiality obligation survives departure but applies only to genuinely confidential and proprietary information, not to general professional competence developed in the course of employment
Invoked by
Engineer A ABC Employee Water Treatment Report Developer
Tension resolution
The Board found no confidential information violation because Engineer A's expertise was general professional competence rather than firm-specific proprietary knowledge
Source Evidence
Source text
The Code addresses the use of confidential information concerning the technical affairs or processes of the former employer, promotional activities and negotiations for employment or business, and the involvement of the engineer in adversarial situations relating to the former employer.
Text references
The Code addresses the use of confidential information concerning the technical affairs or processes of the former employer, promotional activities and negotiations for employment or business, and the involvement of the engineer in adversarial situations relating to the former employer. (See NSPE Code Sections III.4., III.4.a., III.4.b.).
it does not appear that Engineer A has obtained any particular specialized knowledge as an employee of ABC that would restrict his ability to establish his own firm and eventually compete with ABC
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Post-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Invoked in Engineer A Analysis" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's use of water treatment engineering expertise developed while at ABC" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint",
"Specialized Knowledge Constraint on Post-Departure Competition" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The BER's reference to NSPE Code Sections III.4., III.4.a., III.4.b. and the specialized knowledge analysis implicitly invoked the prohibition on using confidential information from a former employer — finding this prohibition inapplicable because Engineer A had not obtained firm-specific confidential or proprietary knowledge" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:35:45.392536+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:35:45.392536+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The confidentiality obligation survives departure but applies only to genuinely confidential and proprietary information, not to general professional competence developed in the course of employment" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A ABC Employee Water Treatment Report Developer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Post-Employment Confidential Information Non-Use Prohibition" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The Code addresses the use of confidential information concerning the technical affairs or processes of the former employer, promotional activities and negotiations for employment or business, and the involvement of the engineer in adversarial situations relating to the former employer." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Board found no confidential information violation because Engineer A's expertise was general professional competence rather than firm-specific proprietary knowledge" ;
proeth:textreferences "The Code addresses the use of confidential information concerning the technical affairs or processes of the former employer, promotional activities and negotiations for employment or business, and the involvement of the engineer in adversarial situations relating to the former employer. (See NSPE Code Sections III.4., III.4.a., III.4.b.).",
"it does not appear that Engineer A has obtained any particular specialized knowledge as an employee of ABC that would restrict his ability to establish his own firm and eventually compete with ABC" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 178 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T08:48:26.020107"^^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
2026-03-01T08:35:45.392536+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:35:45.392536+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.020107
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction