Intellectual Property Dilemma

Danny Chan was proudof his job as  a new Production Specialist for an established multi-national car manufacturing plant which is based in Petaling Jaya . he loved the challenges , high stakes and tough decisions that went along with the job . besides that , he had a very supportive and friendly superior , Mark TOng , who is the Cheif Engineer of the Production Engineering Department . Mark was very pleased with Danny's performance as Danny was able to increase the comp0any's revenue by 25% within the first four months since he joined the company , a feat that had never been achieved by anyone before . However , as Danny sat in his office after a long day , he was troubled , struggling over what had happened earlier that day and the information he now possessed .

Just before lunch , Mark came into Danny's office and handed him a stack of private strategic documents from their closest compeititos . It was a competitive intelligence gold -mine - product plans , designs , pricing strategies , partnership agreements and other documents , mostly marked " priovate and confidential " . When Danny asked where the documents came from , mark told him a with a touch of pride that he had taken them right off the competing firm's servr / "I got into a private section of their intranet and downloaded everthing that looked interesting ,' he said / :Later , realising Danny was concerned and suspicious , Mark explained that he had obtained the username and password of the competitor's intratnet via an ex-colleguie of his who was working there . He assured Danny that no one , apart from him and his ex-collegue , would know about this incident . before mark left , he told Danny to 'make good use ' of the documents so their company would gain a huge competitive advantage overt their compeititor in their sales pitch for a multi-million ringgit conjtract the next day .

Maybe not , Danny thought to himself . he did not feel good about using these materials , let alone having them in his hands . he was in two minds . he had spent the whole afternoon searching for answers to his dilemma , but found no clear company policies or regulations that offered any guidance . his sense of fair play told him that to use the information was wrong . if not downright illegal . What bothered him even more was the knowledge that this kind of thing might happen again . Still ,, Danny was fully aware that using this confidential information would certainly give him and his company a competitive advantage ,b ut he was not sure about the repercussions .