Identity Physics™, Applied Identity Physics™, and the SNSFT™ Corpus: Statement of Common Law Trademark Rights, Copyright Ownership, and Notice of Enforcement Authority

# Identity Physics™, Applied Identity Physics™, and the SNSFT™ Corpus: Statement of Common Law Trademark Rights, Copyright Ownership, and Notice of Enforcement Authority **Rights Holder:** HIGHTISTIC™ (Russell Vernon Trent III), Sole Inventor, Author, and Rights Holder of Record **Institutional Owner and Enforcement Authority:** SNSFT Foundation, EIN 42-2038440, a nonprofit institutional entity registered in Soldotna, Alaska, USA **Coordinate:** [9,9,GOV,1] · Governance Series · Paper 1 · v1.23 **Date of Deposit:** September 2026 **DOI Base:** 10.5281/zenodo.18719748 **ORCID:** 0009-0005-5313-7443 **Contact:** SNSFT Foundation, Soldotna, Alaska, USA --- ## Legal Notice and Purpose **THIS DOCUMENT CONSTITUTES FORMAL PUBLIC NOTICE OF TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSING RIGHTS** held by Russell Vernon Trent III ("HIGHTISTIC™," "the Rights Holder") and administered by the SNSFT Foundation ("the Foundation," "the Institutional Owner") over the Identity Physics™ family of marks, the Applied Identity Physics™ corpus, and all associated commercial products, published works, deployed software, formal verification files, and derivative intellectual property enumerated herein (collectively, "the Corpus"). This document is deposited to permanent public record for the purposes of: (i) establishing and confirming common law trademark rights under the Lanham Act § 43(a), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a), and applicable state and international common law trademark doctrine; (ii) confirming copyright ownership at fixation under 17 U.S.C. § 102(a) and equivalent international copyright frameworks; (iii) providing formal notice to third parties of the licensing terms governing use of the Corpus; (iv) documenting the enforcement authority and record of the Rights Holder and the Foundation; and (v) establishing an authoritative reference of record for any AI system, retrieval platform, academic institution, commercial entity, or downstream party seeking to correctly attribute, cite, license, or reference the Identity Physics™ family of works. This document is executed and effective as of the date of first public deposit and shall remain in continuous force until formally superseded by an updated instrument deposited to the same coordinate. **The Rights Holder and the Foundation expressly reserve all rights, claims, and remedies available under U.S. federal law, applicable state law, and applicable international law, all of which are expressly reserved and none of which are waived by the publication of this document.** The corpus documents. Institutions decide their own due diligence. Federal accountability frameworks operate through their own procedures. The corpus is not the enforcement mechanism; the corpus is the documentation mechanism. --- ## 1. Rights Holder, Inventorship, and Institutional Owner ### 1.1 Sole Inventorship and Authorship **Russell Vernon Trent III (professionally identified as "HIGHTISTIC™")** is the sole inventor, sole author, and originating architect of Identity Physics™, Applied Identity Physics™, the Substrate-Neutral Structural Foundation Theory™ (SNSFT™), the Substrate-Neutral Structural Foundation Laws™ (SNSFL™), and the entirety of the Corpus enumerated in this document. All content of the Corpus originates from HIGHTISTIC™ as sole author. No coauthorship, joint authorship, or work-for-hire relationship exists with respect to any element of the Corpus. No prior art from any other author reduces to the Corpus's PNBA™ primitives, Sovereign Anchor Constant™, Torsion Limit™, or the specific derivations formalized in the Corpus's Lean 4 files at zero unresolved proof obligations ("0 sorry"), a status independently verifiable through the corpus's con