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Acacia Research Corporation
Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: ACTG
Industry	Patent Licensing & Monetization
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Newport Beach, California, USA
Key people	Marvin Key, CEO ; Clayton J. Haynes, CFO
Revenue	US$65.40 million (2017);
Operating income	US$23.59 million (2017);
Net income	US$22.18 million (2017);
Subsidiaries	Acacia Research Group LLC
Website	acaciaresearch.com

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Acacia Research Corporation, founded in 1993, is an American company based in Newport Beach, California. Acacia partners with patent owners such as inventors and universities to license their patents that are infringed. Roughly, 95% of the company's business involves partnering with patent owners by licensing their infringed patents through patent litigation to some of the world's largest corporations.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Acacia creates a subsidiary company that acts as a special purpose entity for each set of patents that it enforces. The patent owner assigns the infringed patents to the subsidiary and the subsidiary licenses the patents through patent litigation. Acacia and the patent owner split any revenues generated from licensing the patents on a 50/50 basis.^[7]^[8].

Since the year 2000, Acacia has generated $1.4 Billion in revenue from licensing patents and has paid out over $731 Million to inventors and other patent owners.^[9]^[10] The company has formed 233 known subsidiaries and has litigated 1,412 cases, four of which were not through a subsidiary.^[11].

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[10-K-1] Acacia Research Corporation Form 10-K, received February 26, 2010,

[10K-2] "Acacia Research Corporation . 2017 Annual Report Form (10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[3] Los Angeles Times

[4] USPTO Assignment Database - Acacia Patent Acquisition Corp

[5] USPTO Assignment Database - Acacia Research Group

[6] Acacia Technologies - Why work with Acacia?

[7] Los Angeles Times

[8] Acacia Technologies - Why work with Acacia?

[9] Acacia Research: Overview

[10] SEC.gov Acacia Research 2018 10-Q

[11] RPX Corporation - Acacia Research

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-'''Acacia Research Corporation''', founded in 1993, is an American company based in [[Newport Beach, California]]. Acacia partners with patent owners such as [[Inventor_(patent)|inventors]] and [[universities]] to [[License#Patent_licensing|license]] their [[patents]] that are [[Patent_infringement|infringed]]. Roughly, 95% of the company's business involves partnering with inventors and other patent owners by licensing their infringed patents through [[patent litigation]] to some of the world's largest corporations.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/06/business/la-fi-stock-spotlight-acacia-research-20140407 Los Angeles Times]</ref><ref>[https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search/result?id=Acacia%20Patent%20Acquisition&type=patAssigneeName USPTO Assignment Database - Acacia Patent Acquisition Corp]</ref><ref>[https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search/result?id=Acacia%20Research&type=patAssigneeName USPTO Assignment Database - Acacia Research Group]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110707075647/http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/whyuse.htm Acacia Technologies - Why work with Acacia?]</ref>
+'''Acacia Research Corporation''', founded in 1993, is an American company based in [[Newport Beach, California]]. Acacia partners with patent owners such as [[Inventor_(patent)|inventors]] and [[universities]] to [[License#Patent_licensing|license]] their [[patents]] that are [[Patent_infringement|infringed]]. Roughly, 95% of the company's business involves partnering with patent owners by licensing their infringed patents through [[patent litigation]] to some of the world's largest corporations.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/06/business/la-fi-stock-spotlight-acacia-research-20140407 Los Angeles Times]</ref><ref>[https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search/result?id=Acacia%20Patent%20Acquisition&type=patAssigneeName USPTO Assignment Database - Acacia Patent Acquisition Corp]</ref><ref>[https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/search/result?id=Acacia%20Research&type=patAssigneeName USPTO Assignment Database - Acacia Research Group]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110707075647/http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/whyuse.htm Acacia Technologies - Why work with Acacia?]</ref>
 Acacia creates a [[subsidiary]] company that acts as a [[special purpose entity]] for each set of patents that it enforces. The patent owner [[Assignment_(law)|assigns]] the infringed patents to the subsidiary and the subsidiary licenses the patents through patent litigation. Acacia and the patent owner split any [[Revenue|revenues]] generated from licensing the patents on a 50/50 basis.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/06/business/la-fi-stock-spotlight-acacia-research-20140407 Los Angeles Times]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110707075647/http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/whyuse.htm Acacia Technologies - Why work with Acacia?]</ref>.