Though ermine and vair were the only two furs known to early armory, other variations of these developed later. Ermines is the reverse of ermine â a field sable seme semÃ© of-ermine spots. Argent it is sometimes called-counter (ermine. cf
PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. Proprietary information, also known as a trade secret, is information that a company wishes to keep confidential or protect from those outside the company.
Part of the Open source glossary: Also see open and Open Source. In information technology, proprietary describes a technology or product that is owned exclusively by a single company that carefully guards knowledge about the technology or the product's inner workings.ome proprietary products can only function properly if at all when used with other products owned by the same company. An example of a proprietary product is Adobe Acrobat, whose Portable Document Format (PDF) files can only be read with the Acrobat Reader.