Proprietary

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Proprietary is an adjective related to property or ownership. It may also refer to:

• Proprietary chapel, a chapel that originally belonged to a person, but open to the public
• Proprietary church, a church built on private ground by a feudal lord
• Proprietary education or For-profit higher education in the United States, educational institutions operated by private businesses
• Proprietary colony, an early North American colony granted by the English Crown to one or more proprietors
• Proprietary community, a community property owned by a single person or entity
• Proprietary company, a form of privately held company in Australia and South Africa
• Proprietary DVR, methodologies used to maintain commercial control over the DVR format
• Proprietary eponym or Generic trademark, a trademark or brand name that has become a generic name
• Proprietary estoppel, a legal mechanism to acquire rights over property, especially land
• Proprietary format, a privately owned digital-file format
• Proprietary governor, the governor of a proprietary colony
• Proprietary hardware, computer hardware whose interface is controlled by the proprietor
• Proprietary House, a mansion in New Jersey built for the proprietary governor in 1764
• Proprietary lock-in or Vendor lock-in, creating customer dependency on a vendor for products and services
• Proprietary protocol, communications protocol owned by a single organization or individual
• Proprietary software, software for which the publisher or another person retains intellectual-property rights
• Proprietary trading, the practice of trading financial instruments with a firm's own money

See also

• Lord Proprietary
• Northern Neck Proprietary, land grant in colonial Virginia
• Ownership
• Property (disambiguation)
• Trade secret
• Trademark
• All pages beginning with "Proprietary"