The phrase "proprietary know-how" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to business, technology, or intellectual property, referring to specialized knowledge or techniques that are owned by a company or individual.
Example: "The company has developed proprietary know-how that gives it a competitive edge in the market."
Alternatives: "exclusive knowledge" or "trade secrets."
Babbage applauds Company A's efforts, but believes the firm's proprietary know-how could do wonders outside the narrow confines of finance for the public in general and for high-tech in particular.
Module fabrication has always been treated as proprietary know-how.
However, growth of ultrathin continuous NCD films (thickness < 100 nm) with a sufficient quality of material by CVD on non-diamond substrates remains a proprietary know-how for each research group because of generally low nucleation efficiency.
This is a challenging task, since a reasonable selection of target substances requires detailed knowledge of the composition of construction products that can be the producers' proprietary know-how.
We are pleased to have Apple as a sapphire customer and to be in a position to leverage our proprietary know-how to enable the supply of this versatile material.
As Fisken and Rutherford (2002) explain: "for a biotechnology company, the business model serves to secure value from the company's proprietary technology and know-how and is currently often heavily reliant on large (bio pharmaceutical or established biotechnology company customers, collaborators and partners".
Because of intellectual property (IP) rights and proprietary technologies (technical know-how) used to produce these vaccines, information on how viruses and product yields are influenced by the compositions of culture medium and the production systems used is totally missing.
As most vaccine manufactures have kept secret about their technical know-how and proprietary manufacturing processes, little information is known about how the commercial vaccines were made.
The most compelling arguments that come close to explication are those that relate the coexistence of proprietary knowledge and market failures in protecting that knowledge, where the firm through internalization of transactions guards its advances in technology, management know-how and brand (Caves 2007; Markusen 1995).
I don't know how proprietary it is or if it is being distributed in any other country.
