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PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICE: UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SOVEREIGNTY AND PROPRIETARY INTEREST

ISSUED BY: The Office of the University Court, Board of Directors and University Counsel

ON BEHALF OF: American College of Science and Technology (ACOSAT) (Doing Business as ACOSAT University)
DATE OF ENFORCEMENT: Saturday, May 24th, 2026.

LEGAL STATUS: Fully Registered, Accredited, and Chartered Private Higher Education Institution under the laws of the Republic of Sierra Leone.

NOTICE TO: All Commercial Banks, Microfinance Institutions, Telecommunications Operators, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), Software Engineers, Corporate Entities, Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), and Potential Infringers or Copycats.

CONTEXT & INSTITUTIONAL STANDING

TAKE NOTICE that the American College of Science and Technology (ACOSAT), operating as ACOSAT University, pursuant to its regulatory charter and legal mandate established under the Universities Act, 2021 of Sierra Leone, hereby publishes this absolute, definitive, and unassailable Public Legal Declaration.

ACOSAT University has engineered, compiled, and deployed through independent institutional capital and proprietary development labs, a sophisticated digital infrastructure ecosystem. This infrastructure is a unique cross-sector utility that bridges higher education, civil service systems, national data architecture, and the formal financial network.

This Notice firmly establishes ACOSAT University’s absolute ownership, prior-use rights, and exclusive intellectual property bounds over the following four foundational digital assets:

  1. The National Academic Digital Infrastructure (NADI)™

A secure application layer and database protocol bridging higher education, sovereign digital identity systems, and the formal banking sector.

  1. The National Human Resources Infrastructure System (HURIS)™

A multi-tenant enterprise data architecture and tracking platform built for national identity mapping, civil service/corporate workforce analytics, structural payroll audits, and secure background verification.

  1. The ACOSAT Campus Wallet™

A proprietary, closed-loop micro-payment ecosystem, digital financial rail, and alternative student credit data logging matrix.

  1. The National University Electronic Payment System (NUEPS)™

An API-driven gateway infrastructure configured for direct interoperability with mobile network wallets and commercial banking networks.

SECTION I: INVOCATION OF DOMESTIC STATUTORY FORCE

ACOSAT University asserts full legal force over its platforms within the borders of the Republic of Sierra Leone, explicitly invoking the following statutory mandates to deter and prosecute any form of corporate theft, replication, or unauthorized derivation:

  1. Computer Program & Architectural Copyright

Pursuant to Section 4 and Section 9 of the Copyright Act, 2011 of Sierra Leone, copyright protection attaches automatically upon the fixation of a work in any tangible medium.

  • The Protected Perimeter: ACOSAT University’s source codes, object codes, database schemas, compiled libraries, application programming interfaces (APIs), user interface (UI) layouts, and operational algorithms are legally classified as protected “literary and artistic works.”
  • Immediate Protection: No formal publication or state certificate is required to assert these rights. Any unauthorized access, extraction, decompilation, or reverse-engineering of our code bases constitutes a severe statutory violation.
  1. Trade Name, Trademark, & Brand Security

Pursuant to the Trade Marks Act, 2014 of Sierra Leone and the Trade Marks Regulations, 2024 (Statutory Instrument No. 19 of 2024), notice is served regarding our absolute common-law prior-use rights and trade descriptor ownership.

  • The names and designations American College of Science and Technology™, ACOSAT™, ACOSAT University™, NADI™, HURIS™, NUEPS™, and Campus Wallet™ are proprietary trademarks. Be it known to all that they ALL belong to ACOSAT.
  • Any third-party deployment of confusingly similar nomenclature to market human resource, financial, or educational software constitutes an actionable trademark infringement and the common-law tort of Passing Off.
  1. Trade Secret and Cybersecurity Protections

The precise methodologies by which NADI™ and HURIS™ process identity tokens, cross-match employment statuses, and generate alternative credit data matrices are classified as corporate Trade Secrets. Any unauthorized interception, data scraping, network penetration, or exploitation of these backend channels is a direct criminal offense under the Cybersecurity and Crime Act, 2021 of Sierra Leone.

SECTION II: INVOCATION OF JURISDICTIONAL FORCE OUTSIDE SIERRA LEONE

To ensure absolute protection against international infringers, global tech copycats, or cross-border network platforms, ACOSAT University invokes international treaty mechanisms that carry binding legal force across foreign jurisdictions:

  • The Berne Convention: By virtue of Sierra Leone’s accession to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the copyright automatically vested in ACOSAT University’s source codes and system architectures is instantly recognized and legally enforceable in all 181 member states globally, including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and ECOWAS nations, without regional registration delays.
  • The TRIPS Agreement: ACOSAT University asserts Article 10 of the World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS Agreement, which explicitly dictates that computer programs, whether in source or object code, must be protected as literary works under global trade enforcement rules.
  • The Paris Convention: Pursuant to Article 6bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, ACOSAT University claims absolute global protection over its proprietary marks against third parties attempting to register or use confusingly similar trade names in foreign jurisdictions.

SECTION III: MANDATORY CORPORATE AND INTERNAL BOUNDARIES

  1. The Strict “Work-for-Hire” Doctrine

Let it be known to all past and present faculty members, engineering students, software developers, independent technology contractors, and external consultants that every line of code, database table, system blueprint, and algorithmic sub-routine running within NADI™, HURIS™, NUEPS™, and the Campus Wallet™ was built under institutional commission without exception.

In strict accordance with institutional policy and prevailing labor frameworks, all such artifacts are classified as Works-for-Hire. Full economic rights, worldwide copyright, and ownership vest exclusively and completely in ACOSAT University from the very moment of creation. No individual agent holds personal title or rights over these systems.

  1. Restriction on System Interoperability

Commercial banks, financial technology platforms, and government bodies are explicitly notified that they may not map, test, probe, or link to ACOSAT University’s API architectures or system dashboards without a formal Commercial Access License Agreement and a signed, executed Non-Disclosure and Non-Circumvention Agreement (NDA) stamped by University Counsel.

SECTION IV: ENFORCEMENT AND EXTRAORDINARY REMEDIES

ACOSAT University will aggressively defend its development expenditures, its heavy infrastructure investments, and its technological sovereignty. Any entity found violating our intellectual property rights will be met with immediate, unyielding legal countermeasures, including:

  • Immediate High Court Injunctions: Emergency civil applications to seize servers, halt unauthorized system deployments, and freeze operations of competing networks utilizing pirated concepts or code.
  • Account of Profits and Punitive Damages: Full legal actions seeking total restoration of all commercial revenues generated via the uncompensated encroachment of our platforms. 
  • Criminal Prosecution: Formal filings with the National Communications Authority (NatCA), the Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI), and national security offices under the penal provisions of the Copyright Act, 2011 and the Cybersecurity and Crime Act, 2021.

EXECUTIVE DECREE OF THE BOARD

ACOSAT University remains fully open to secure, ethical, and collaborative commercial integrations with forward-thinking financial networks, corporate entities, and state actors via structured licensing agreements. However, our intellectual property is a protected asset. There will be zero tolerance for opportunistic encroachment, intellectual theft, or uncompensated copying of our infrastructure.

SIGNED AND SEALED ON THIS 24TH DAY OF MAY, 2026:

Office of the University Counsel & Director of Legal Affairs

American College of Science and Technology (ACOSAT University)

Republic of Sierra Leone

Official Inquiries/Corporate Licensing: acosat2gmail.com, edu@acosatsl.com

American College of Science and Technology (ACOSAT) Sierra Leone is a registered trademark and business name. We (“our,” “we,” or “us” agents, heirs, designates and assignees) are committed to protect our intellectual properties rights, copyrights, trademarks, logos & etc., without exceptions and according to all relevant laws. Our users including all our students,  staff, employees, customers, etc, the public, accept and agree to our Terms of Service (“Terms”) by seeking opportunities with us, installing, accessing,  participating in any of our services, or using our websites, our business services and platforms, directly or indirectly or remotely, features, software, or website, instructional materials,  equipment, submitted resources,  projects, thesis, dissertations of all kinds, speeches, addresses, exam, tuition and fees, records, research works of all kinds submitted by individuals and/or groups, applications and application materials developed and submitted in exchange for our services belong to us exclusively. Including Enrollment materials, everything business, training, academically related (together, severally and/or jointly constitute our “Services;” thus, are strictly and exclusively owned by us and legally inure to us, protected and cannot be shared or compromised). 
Our Terms do not allow our users to violate someone else’s intellectual property rights when using our Services, including their copyrights and trademarks. Anyone doing so does so on one’s detriment and we can’t take responsibility. We can’t be held responsible or accountable for any actions or omissions we did not approve in writing. We hereby disclaim and disallow and prohibit any negligence of any kind, number or nature, which directly or indirectly or remotely hurts anyone or anyone’s properties. Again, we don’t account for what we did not explicitly approve or authorize upfront in writing. All our assignments must be in writing using our official letterhead. We do this to raise our business and services quality and standard and to prevent illegal and frivolous claims.

As explained in more detail in our Privacy Policy, we do not retain our users’ messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services. We do, however, host our users’ account information, including our users’ profile picture, profile name, or status message, if they decide to include them as part of their account information.

Copyright
To report copyright infringement and request that we remove any infringing content, please email a completed copyright infringement claim to edu@acosatsl.com. 

Before you report a claim of copyright infringement, you may want to send a message to the relevant user you believe may be infringing your copyright. You may be able to resolve the issue without contacting us.

Trademark
To report trademark infringement and request that we remove any infringing content, please email a complete trademark infringement claim to edu@acosatsl.com.

Before you report a claim of trademark infringement, you may want to send a message to the relevant user you believe may be infringing your trademark. You may be able to resolve the issue without contacting us.

What to include in your copyright or trademark infringement claim to us.
Please include all of the following information when reporting a copyright or trademark infringement claim to us:

Your complete contact information (full name, mailing address, and phone number). Note that we regularly provide your contact information, including your name and email address (if provided), the name of your organization or client who owns the rights in question, and the content of your report to the person whose content you are reporting. You may wish to provide a professional or business email address where you can be reached.
A description of the copyrighted work or trademark that you claim has been infringed.
A description of the content hosted on our Services that you claim infringes your copyright or trademark.
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material on our Services. The easiest way to do this is by providing us the phone number of the individual who has submitted the infringing content on our Services.
A declaration that:
You have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted or trademarked content described above, in the manner you have complained of, is not authorized by the copyright or trademark owner, its agent, or the law;
The information in your claim is accurate; and
You declare, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright or trademark that is allegedly infringed.
Your electronic signature or physical signature. When you do send such materials information ensure we specifically acknowledged it.
Any publications about us or against us relating to any purported infringement without first following this process impugns and slanders our names and business as blackmail. 

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