Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
A proprietor or owner.
Wherefore what issue soever shall result from my mind , by his means most happily married to a retired life , must , of due , redound to his honour , as the sole proprietary of my pains during my present condition
A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
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The rights of a proprietor.