Proprietary

Proprietary indicates that a party exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties.

Related Topics:
Ownership - Property

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Where a party holds or claims proprietary interests in relation to certain types of property (eg. a creative literary work, or software), that property may also be the subject of intellectual property law (eg. copyright or patents).

Related Topics:
Software - Intellectual property - Law - Copyright - Patent

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