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

  1. ^ a b Acacia Research Corporation Form 10-K, received February 26, 2010,
  2. ^ 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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