From Vice Provost in charge of Research, this was a George Mason University Memorandum to John Warfield re rights to Interpretive Structural Modeling SOFTWARE. This was a disclaimer of ownership from the university. This was the response to Warfield's request for clarification of the status of Interpretive Structural Modeling Software in relation to the university. I believe this request pertained to the DOS version for PC which had been developed in Warfield's office at George Mason University in the 1980's, and not to the Windows software which was written in the 1990's. Rights to the Windows ISM software was similarly released from university ownership in a memo to Ben Broome from Jennifer Murphy, dated 1997. There were reasons that the university did not wish to own or license the ISM software. The title was clouded because it had been developed over a long period at several different institutions, beginning in 1972 at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, then continuing in 1978 at University of Dayton, then copied and expanded at University of Virginia. Also, unbeknownst to Warfield, Alexander Christakis and David Keever had copyrighted the software, actually registering it with the U. S. copyright office in 1984! Warfield finally learned about this in 1989, probably during the GMU investigation of the software history.