When considered in the context of mass-produced software sold at retail, there are significant problems with the proprietary form of software licenses.

The medication is commonly held either in a capsule for manual loading or a proprietary form from inside the inhaler.

NovoGen is a proprietary form of 3D printing technology that allows scientists to assemble living tissue cells into a desired pattern.

You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any word processing or hypertext form.

It's a proprietary form that Opera uses, Opera Mini uses.

Messages (both sync and async) were passed using a proprietary form of "tagged data" (a similar concept to today's XML).

The mezzanine approach to placing multiple functions in a single card slot has been around for a long time both in proprietary and open standard forms.

Audiofy bookchip is a proprietary form of distributing audio books on SD cards, most notably used for Pimsleur language courses.

Iodine, in multiple proprietary forms, is given by oral, rectal, intra-arterial or intravenous routes.

Structured content often refers to information that has been classified using XML, but can also relate to information classified using other standard or proprietary forms of metadata.