Their proprietary value proposition wasn't the plane or camera, but the specialized algorithms to accurately monitor water and fertilizer.
Sony must find new ways to add proprietary value to its products that the other Asian manufacturers can't mimic, and content looks like a good way to do so.
"We have to add proprietary value to our software offering to attract the developers and customers," says DeWitt, who left a cushy job to turn Cobalt into a large Internet infrastructure company.
Intellectual property should be protected — an artist's work has no less proprietary value than a corporation's, and of course it deserves strident safeguarding.
Isolated from clients and it was once thought assets with proprietary value, technologists bounce from firm to firm, from one high-rise building to another.To this footloose community, the case of Sergey Aleynikov, a Goldman Sachs programmer, came as a shock.
Salha says that postdocs are kept separate from the mainstream drug-discovery program of the company and are free to publish and present their work once it has been cleared of proprietary value.
As such, startups like Cloudera, DataStax and MuleSoft are generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year from real enterprise customers by selling proprietary, value-added products around their open projects.
Although, Skype is characterized by its peer-to-peer structure and the proprietary protocol, these values can still work as comparable results in various networks.
And with regard to taxes at the corporate level, Mr. Jacobs said he believes that since the proprietary lease itself has value, the I.R.S. can be persuaded to treat the transfer in such a way that will substantially reduce the tax exposure of the corporation.
In fact, United States v. Caronia, 703 F.3d 149 (2nd Cir. 2012) notes that courts and the FDA have long "recognized the proprietary and potential public value of unapproved or off-label drug use".
