Acacia Research

Acacia Research Corporation, founded in 1993, is an American company based in Irvine, California. 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.[3][4][5][6][7]

Acacia Research Corporation
TypePublic
NASDAQ: ACTG
IndustryPatent Licensing & Monetization
Founded1993[1]
FounderPaul Ryan
HeadquartersIrvine, CA,
Irvine, California
,
USA
Key people
Clifford Press, CEO
Alfred V. Tobia, Jr., CIO [1]
Revenue
  • US$23.59 million (2017)[2]
  • US$22.18 million (2017)[2]
SubsidiariesAcacia Research Group LLC
Websiteacaciaresearch.com

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 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.[8][9][5]

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.[10][11] The company has formed 233 known subsidiaries and has litigated 1,412 cases, four of which were not through a subsidiary.[12]

One such subsidiary was CombiMatrix,[13] which Acacia held from 2002 until 2007.[14] Invitae acquired CombiMatrix in 2017.[15]


References
  1. Acacia Research Corporation Form 10-K, received February 26, 2010,
  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. "Acacia Research Corporation 10-K Annual Report". www.sec.gov.
  8. Los Angeles Times
  9. Acacia Technologies - Why work with Acacia?
  10. Acacia Research: Overview
  11. SEC.gov Acacia Research 2018 10-Q
  12. RPX Corporation - Acacia Research
  13. Anand, Geeta (2001-07-03). "Roche, CombiMatrix to Develop Genetics-Based Laboratory Tools". WSJ.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  14. "Form 10-K". SEC.gov. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  15. Pedersen, Amanda (2017-08-01). "Invitae is Going After Prenatal Screening in a Big Way". MDDIonline.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-30.
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