You feel obliged, in a warm kind of way, to check in on the cubs — John Isner, Donald Young, Juan Martín Del Potro, Ernests Gulbis — and, next thing you know, two years on, you can claim some kind of pioneering proprietary attachment.
In the business itself and/or the product, I love to look at things that have some kind of patent or proprietary aspect to it.
The rule was designed by Congress to limit the very kind of proprietary trading that JPMorgan was seeking.
On the positive side, Mr. Keane said, "That kind of proprietary content that you can't get anywhere else distinguishes them".
Although they are from New York, the Strokes signed first with Rough Trade, a British label, giving British fans a kind of proprietary interest in their fortunes.
Mr. Dimon and other bank executives argue that hedging, when used properly, allows financial institutions to offset the normal risks they face from economic or market shifts, and doesn't represent the kind of proprietary, directional bet that the Volcker Rule is intended to bar.
This sort of change to email is a perfect example of the kind of proprietary makeover happening across the web's technologies.
Without media divisions weighing them down, such manufacturers as Toshiba, Pioneer and Matsushita will have far more freedom to negotiate media partnerships designed to create the kind of proprietary content that will help the parent company's hardware sales.
Ironically, many companies innovating on mobile payments today are focusing their attention on a new kind of proprietary "payment mechanism" in the form of isolated apps, NFC required devices and other exclusive components of a mobile device.
