This was a disclaimer of ownership from the university, arranging to transfer the title to Ben Broome. This was the response to Warfield's request for ownership clarification which he submitted to the university 3 years earlier, in 1994. (in filename: ISM for WINDOWS Intellectual Property Disclosure) I believe that this 1997 disclaimer pertains only to the WINDOWS version of the software, and that the DOS version was covered in another memorandum received by Warfield in 1990 (in filename: Rossini to Warfield disclaiming GMU's rights to ISM software, 1990. Alternate filename was Memorandum to John Warfield Intellectual Property Rights) The memorandum from Jennifer is addressed to Ben Broome because, acting for IASIS, he was the one who finally got the response needed from GMU regarding the IP rights. He went through GMU's Office of Sponsored Programs, which was the university office responsible for administration of Warfield's Ford Motor Company & DSMC research grants which paid for the software writing done by Mr. Ma and Mr. Gan with Ben Broome hired as their supervisor. The document of disclaimer lists Ben as "Director, Sponsored Program" but this is not exactly true since Warfield, not Broome was the official "Director." But nobody quibbled, because Broome at least was able to obtain a document which formally relinquished intellectual property rights and that was the major objective. Warfield sold a few copies, and split proceeds between Ben, Dangsheng, Qingchuan and Warfield. I can't remember the price, I think it was $2000. By the year 1997 there was very little demand for the software because most persons who wanted it either got it free through government agency (DSMC as partial sponsor was able to stipulate that any U.S. government agency could receive a free copy.) or went ahead and wrote their own software privately, building on what they had already gotten free. By the year 2000 there was no demand at all for the GMU software. Warfield eventually placed all the software, both DOS and WINDOWS on his web page for free download to the public.