If you own something, especially something of value, then you have proprietary rights. The word is most often used in relation to new inventions or patents.
A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
Noun
an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
Adjective
protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights; "`Tylenol'' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen'' is the generic form"
n.
A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to
a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own
right.
n.
A body proprietors, taken collectively.
n.
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself,
notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
a.
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered
as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
Proprietary
Proprietary
A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned;
Usage Examples
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
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