proprietary rights
Legal ownership claims
Proprietary rights are the legal rights of ownership over property, ideas, or creations.
The term appears most often in intellectual property contexts—patents, copyrights, trademarks—where it refers to exclusive control over how something is used or distributed: The company retained proprietary rights to the software.
Proprietary rights can be licensed, sold, or fiercely guarded.
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- trade secretHidden business knowledge
- non-disclosure agreementContract binding parties to secrecy
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- patent holderOwner of invention rights
trademark · ownership · legal ownership · possession · agreement · industrial design · royalties · licensing · licensing agreement · infringement · fair use · exclusivity · title · misappropriation · cease and desist · assignment · deed · enforceability
proprietary rightspublic domain
Unprotected creative works
common ownership · collective ownership · communal property · public ownership · shared rights
proprietary rightsopen source
Publicly accessible code
copyleft · Creative Commons · free software · libre · creative commons
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