Acacia Research
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Acacia Research
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | NASDAQ: ACTG |
| Industry | Intellectual property |
| Founded | 1993[1] |
| Headquarters | Newport Beach, California, USA[2] |
| Key people | Paul R. Ryan, chairman/CEO Robert L. Harris, II, president[1] |
| Subsidiaries | Acacia Technologies |
| Website | acaciaresearch.com |
Acacia Research Corporation is an American company based in Newport Beach, California, which, through various subsidiaries, purchases patents and licenses them or takes legal action against perceived infringers of its intellectual property.[2] This business model is known as a patent trolling.
References
- ^ a b Acacia Research Corporation Form 10-K, received February 26, 2010,
- ^ a b Cherry, Steven M. (June 2004). "Patent Profiteers". IEEE Spectrum. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/patent-profiteers/0. "By its own account, Acacia is the only publicly traded company in the world that does nothing but acquire and license patents, and sue other companies over the patents it acquires and licenses."
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