The firm's flagship product, AHL, a fund that uses a proprietary computer-driven strategy, lost nearly 6 percent last year.
Here's how bad it is: Between 2006 and 2011, banks made $15.6bn on proprietary bets, and they lost $15.8bn.
CytoReason's proprietary platform helps rebuild lost cellular information from gene expression data and associates genes to specific cells.
But the killer applications for personal robots remain as illusive as ever.With no proprietary secrets to lose, and everything to gain from having as many teams as possible use its open-source software, Willow Garage is giving away 11 of its $400,000 PR2 robots and software development kits to research groups around the world for them to develop applications of their own.
Pointing to the company's flagship fund, AHL, which uses a proprietary computer-driven strategy and lost nearly 6 percent last year, the analysts wrote: "Our upgrade to 'buy' is based on valuation, and because we believe AHL fund performance cannot get sustainably worse from here".
Since then many big retailers have lost their lucrative proprietary credit-card business as customers turned to services offering rewards like airline miles and teaser interest rates.
For example, the translation of the data from an ESRI format into either the MapInfo format or a different proprietary format for distribution possibly as a lost leader GIS data product, again without infringing on the original copyright.
Factors like fear of sexual harassment litigation, lost employee productivity and theft of proprietary data and software have swamped any hesitations about privacy.
Companies like Good Technology, MobileIron, AirWatch and Citrix's XenMobile help managers segregate corporate data from personal data on employees' phones and offer features that help them remotely wipe proprietary information from a device if it gets lost or stolen.
In 2012, JPMorgan Chase lost over $6 billion on an infamous proprietary trade known as "The London Whale".
