Some of these B2B services are proprietary; for example, Wal-Mart tells its suppliers that they must use its own system if they want to be part of its annual turnover of $250 billion.So e-commerce is already very big, and it is going to get much bigger.
Generally, concepts of secondary qualities are taken to be proprietary for each sensory modality.
While the client's GUI is open-source, the client itself is proprietary for security and scientific integrity reasons.
The stimulation parameters in terms of pulse duration and frequency are proprietary for the manufacturer and thus are not included in this protocol.
Some of these degree-granting schools you may have heard of without knowing that they are "proprietary," or for-profit, for instance, New York City's School of Visual Arts, which has approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
The trading in the London group of the chief investment office was proprietary, intended to create profit for the bank.
It could also be proprietary technology for self-driving cars although, given the size of that industry, it's unlikely that such development would be controlled by a single service provider and might in fact have the opposite effect: it becomes even easier to enter the car on demand market.
"We reserve the right to protect that which we feel is proprietary," a spokesman for Diebold, David Bear, said.
It is the author's perception, based on many years of activity in this field, that most autocoders are proprietary products produced for a very specific type of job.
These databases are proprietary databases and are available for licensure for a fee.
