I just wrote propriety when I meant to say proprietarity, but that . . . The adjective corresponding to proprietary in Latin is proprietarius I can't find any example of a Latin adjective ending in -ius being nominalized by replacing -ius with the suffix -itas; the usual pattern seems to be instead -ius > -ietas; e g notorius > notorietas 2 Just for fun, the lone example of French "proprietarité" that I found
Does ditto driver mean a specific driver name? It might mean "a proprietary dongle with a proprietary driver", because "ditto" means the same as above And "ditto" is easier to type than "proprietary"
Should capitals be used when verbing trademarks? Some quick dictionary research will reveal that it is standard practice not to capitalize proprietary nouns-turned-verbs In some cases, the capitalized equivalent is also acceptable This is a rule that largely holds, in my opinion, for those words that still exist in the informal realm
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which is the best preposition to follow proprietary? The only examples I can see in the OED, of proprietary, used in this sense, employ the preposition to So the intellectual property is proprietary to the company
What is regomised? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @EdwinAshworth I know what proprietary means Would you be so kind to provide facts then, like a trademark filing, proving your claim! Bíró was the last name of an inventor of a particular type of ballpoint pen and has also been genericised in some countries to mean ball pen, while remaining a trademark
Using TM for trademarked term - every time or just once? As Chicago observes, the ™ symbol is used for unregistered trademarks—names that the the maker is claiming proprietary rights to pending review of a formal application to the U S Patent Office for federal registration of the name
Synonyms for content in publishing - English Language Usage Stack . . . These games are sometimes called "free software with proprietary content" However, one style guide published by a prominent organization in the free software community discourages use of the word "content", claiming it "disparages the works" by regarding them "as a commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money "
terminology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I have seen (and actually used) "in-house" script code tool in several formal descriptions of data analysis pipelines to represent proprietary own developments of companies