From there it's a long slow slog trying to define what open is in such a way as to advance your particular proprietary interests.
For many, their bread and butter comes from the sale of games that are played on consoles — usually games that are specific to one particular proprietary console — so a service that is constructed Netflix- or Amazon Prime-style, where a consumer pays a single monthly fee to access whatever content they want, when she or he wants it, could eat into those margins.
These assets include an advantaged market window into the activity of a particular industry, proprietary technical know-how, and internally developed software and systems that may have external value.
But he has a particular blind spot: proprietary hardware.
Like that one, it's stocked with a wide variety of cannabis flower, oils, edibles and the like, with a particular emphasis on the proprietary strains from the Cookie Family collective (the growers who originated the strain formerly known as Girl Scout Cookies as well as other dessert-named strains such as Gelato and Sunset Sherbet).
The basic difference between a contract for a house and one for a co-op apartment, Mr. Weinstein said, is that the former provides for the sale of real estate while the latter provides for the sale of stock in a corporation and the transfer of a proprietary lease for a particular apartment.
Access to proprietary data (i.e., the proprietary products associated with proprietary observations) is restricted to two accounts: a PI account (that provides access to all proprietary observations of the PI) and a proposal account (that provides access to all proprietary data associated with a particular proposal and that the PI may want to share with collaborators).
Closed, proprietary systems exist where a particular company (or consortium of companies) holds the e-book files and controls all the places a customer or library patron can access them.
Under the old regulations, he said, if a particular action required shareholder approval -- an amendment of the proprietary lease or bylaws, for example -- the board would have had to call a shareholders' meeting.
Some solutions are embedded in a proprietary system or are tied to a particular electronic health record (EHR) vendor which limits their adoption.
