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Acacia Research Corporation
Company type
Public
Traded as
Nasdaq: ACTG
Industry
Patent Licensing & Monetization
Founded
1993; 31 years ago (1993)[1]
Founder
Paul Ryan
Headquarters
New York City, US[2]
Key people
Clifford Press (CEO)[3]
Alfred V. Tobia, Jr. (CIO)[1]
Revenue
US$88 million (2021)[2]
Operating income
US$15 million (2021)[2]
Net income
US$149 million (2021)[2]
Total assets
US$799 million (2021)[2]
Total equity
US$419 million (2021)[2]
Number of employees
287 (December 2021)[2]
Subsidiaries
Acacia Research Group LLC
Website
acaciaresearch.com
Acacia Research Corporation is a publicly traded American company based in New York City. Acacia partners with patent owners such as inventors and universities to license patents that are infringed. Roughly 95% of the company's business involves licensing infringed patents on behalf of patent owners to corporations through patent litigation.[4][5][6][7][8]
Acacia was incorporated in California[9] in 1993 and is based in New York City.[10] The company was consisted of two divisions: Acacia Technologies and CombiMatrix Group.[9] The former covers the development, acquisition, licensing and enforcement of patented technologies.[9] It 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 then licenses the patents to companies who are infringing. Acacia and the patent owner split any revenues generated from licensing the patents on a 50/50 basis.[11][12][6] Acacia's second division, CombiMatrix, constituted its life sciences business.[9] This division, which Acacia held from 2002 until 2007, operated as a subsidiary.[13][14] Invitae acquired CombiMatrix in 2017.[15]
Since the year 2000, Acacia has generated $1.4 billion in revenue from licensing patents and has paid out more than $731 million to inventors and other patent owners.[16][17] The company has formed 233 known subsidiaries and has litigated 1,412 cases, four of which were not through a subsidiary.[18]
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US$88 million (2021)[2]