General Proprietary Business Information

Category Abbreviation:

PROPIN

Category Description:

Material and information relating to, or associated with, a company's products, business, or activities, including but not limited to financial information; data or statements; trade secrets; product research and development; existing and future product designs and performance specifications.

Required Warning Statement:

Required Dissemination Control:

Additional Note:

Pursuant to 10 CFR 600.15, an application or other document, including any unsolicited information, may include technical data and other data, including trade secrets and commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential, which the applicant does not want disclosed to the public or used by the Government for any purpose other than application evaluation.

To protect such data, the submitter must mark the cover sheet of the application or other document with the following Notice:

NOTICE OF RESTRICTION ON DISCLOSURE AND USE OF DATA
Pages [____] of this document may contain trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential and is exempt from public disclosure. Such information shall be used or disclosed only for evaluation purposes or in accordance with a financial assistance or loan agreement between the submitter and the Government. The Government may use or disclose any information that is not appropriately marked or otherwise restricted, regardless of source.

Links to Proprietary Business Information Categories
Entity Registration Information
Ocean Common Carrier and Marine Terminal Operator Agreements
Ocean Common Carrier Service Contracts
Proprietary Manufacturer
Proprietary Postal

Examples

Information concerning or relating to trade secrets, processes, operations, style of work, or apparatus, or to the identity, confidential statistical data, amount or source of any income profits, losses, or expenditures of any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association
Customer names submitted in an investigation
Intellectual property
Limited rights data means data (other than computer software) developed at private expense that embody trade secrets or are commercial or financial and confidential or privileged
Confidential business information

Authorities

10 CFR 600.15
10 USC 4021
15 USC 46(f)
15 USC 2055
18 USC 1831(a)(2) and 1832(a)(2)
18 USC 1905
33 USC 1318(b)
42 USC 300j-4(d)(1)
42 USC 6991d(b)(1)
42 USC 7414(c)
48 CFR 52.227-20(d)