According to one account, the first personal seat license plan was developed in 1986 at Stanford University by legendary tennis coach Dick Gould.
[3] According to a second account, the permanent seat license was invented by a Columbus, Ohio architect, Rick Ohanian, in January 1987.
Ohanian described his plan in a Letter to The Editor of the Columbus Dispatch, published on March 2, 1987, entitled "Ticketbond is Answer to Financing Proposed Facility".
[4] According to a third account, the permanent seat license was invented by Charlotte sports marketing agent Max Muhleman, in 1993.
[11] Fans who had purchased a personal seat license still had 9 years left on their original contract, and filed a class action lawsuit in February 2016.