Copying, Benchmarking, and Reverse Engineering

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• Competitive Benchmarking: Understanding the Ethical Issues, Part I , from The Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation.
• Competitive Benchmarking, Part II, from the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation.
• When a firm writes product specifications patterned on another's work, and then presents these specifications to others (usually in order to secure a lower price for producing the same product), the firm may be acting unethically.These two cases explore the ethics of such "copycat techniques."
• Ethics and Reverse Engineering by John L. Wallberg. Using interviews with Texas Instruments employees, this student-created module explores the ethical ramifications of reverse engineering.
• Reverse Engineering and Patent Infringement, from The Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation.
• Reverse Engineering, from the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation.

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