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The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. PrivatelyHeldCorporation closed corporation <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is an incorporated business whose stock, if it exists, is not traded publicly on any stock exchange. Businesses that are traded publicly are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PubliclyHeldCorporation</a>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_held_company privately held corporation privately-held corporation closed corporations private corporation privately held corporations privately-held corporations private corporations Rapid Stream RapidStreamInc KanisaInc Kanisa, Inc. Inxight InxightSoftwareInc Inxight Software, Inc. is a software company whose business focus is unstructured data management. Inxight was spun off from a project at Xerox PARC, and became an independent company in 1997. Its products include the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rSd0LYF8MQdeKFsDq3jPtuA" class="cyc_term">InxightThingFinder</a> software package. WizardsOfTheCoast-CommercialOrganization Wizards of the Coast Cycorp Cycorp VulcanInc Vulcan, Inc. StreamSage, Inc. StreamSageInc PrivatelyHeldCorporation closed corporation <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is an incorporated business whose stock, if it exists, is not traded publicly on any stock exchange. Businesses that are traded publicly are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PubliclyHeldCorporation</a>. PrivatelyHeldCorporation closed corporation <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is an incorporated business whose stock, if it exists, is not traded publicly on any stock exchange. Businesses that are traded publicly are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PubliclyHeldCorporation</a>. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString PrivatelyHeldCorporation closed corporation <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is an incorporated business whose stock, if it exists, is not traded publicly on any stock exchange. Businesses that are traded publicly are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PubliclyHeldCorporation</a>. OrganizationsByLegalForm-Organization-Topic organizations by legal form organization topic PrivatelyHeldCorporation closed corporation <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is an incorporated business whose stock, if it exists, is not traded publicly on any stock exchange. Businesses that are traded publicly are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PubliclyHeldCorporation</a>. A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object PrivatelyHeldOrganization A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViS05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommercialOrganization</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> is the collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a> whose securities or other ownership interests are held by a (usually small) group of individuals or entities, and whose securities are forbidden by law to be traded among members of the general public. A notable specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVipDJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoleProprietorship</a>. privately held organization PrivatelyHeldCorporation closed corporation <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-qQyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldOrganization</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV2ZnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrivatelyHeldCorporation</a> is an incorporated business whose stock, if it exists, is not traded publicly on any stock exchange. Businesses that are traded publicly are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PubliclyHeldCorporation</a>. The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjVT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organization</a>s which have been incorporated in accordance with the laws of a jurisdiction. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> is a legal entity distinct from its owners and employees, and is afforded certain powers both by law and by its incorporating documents. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> may be either <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViS05wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommercialOrganization</a>s or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViu6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NonProfitOrganization</a>s. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> organized in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a> is incorporated under the laws of a particular state, although it may be empowered to carry on activities in any state. Most American jurisdictions require that one of the words or abbreviations `corporation', `company', `incorporated', `corp', `co', or `inc' be included in the registered name of a corporation. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LegalCorporation</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjfTJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IBMInc</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViYm5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cycorp</a>. LegalCorporation legal corporation