Alison MacG Oct 19, 2016:

It's an unusual construction in English. What country is your text from? I think it is unlikely to mean here that they filed a patent application without the assistance of a patent agent. I think they are referring to the fact that it is a proprietary trading platform, i.e. it is their own platform, they developed it, they own it and they own the patent rights themselves - it is not a platform operated under licence from another company.
Compare the following:
Opteck’s own proprietary trading platform makes it possible for you to trade on over 100 underlying assets from the comfort of your home.
Our binary options web-platform is uniquely built and was exclusively designed & developed with our traders needs in mind.
http://www.opteck.com/web-platform/
This may be due to the self-patented trading platform
https://www.opteck.com/education-center/articles/malaysian-b...
They are aiming to use their local news updates and make high profits by investing in a range of global assets using Opteck's self-patented trading platform.
http://www.opteck.com/education-center/articles/market-analy...