Acacia Research Group

The Bridge Between
Invention and Application

The Bridge Between
Invention and Application

The Bridge Between
Invention and Application

Patent Partner testimonials

"Patent owners have many options to consider when it comes to obtaining value from their R&D investments. When it comes to large and complex patent portfolios, however, the choices are much more limited. Acacia's technical expertise, licensing capability and management are exceptional. The entire service package that Acacia has to offer provides significant benefits to the businesses of Renesas and its customers. We are pleased with the ...

Hiro Seki,General Manager, Intellectual Property Division,Renesas Electronics Corporation

Patent Partner testimonials

“Access Co. Ltd., as an embedded software vendor and the holder of patents related to technologies and functions of smartphones, is pleased to have its patents licensed to the world's major players including Microsoft, Samsung, Nokia, to name a few. This accomplishment could never have been made without the great partnership with and extremely diligent efforts of ACACIA Research Group. We are grateful to ACACIA's highly esteemed professionalism and ...

Koichi Narasaki, Chief Operating Officer and EVP, ACCESS Co.,Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

Patent Partner testimonials

“Acacia has been licensing my patents now for several years, and I am very pleased with the way they do business with me. As an individual inventor I have always been treated in a fair and honest manner by them. In general it is difficult for individual inventors such as myself to protect myself in a world of large companies who have vast resources at their disposal to avoid fair treatment of my patents. My partnership with Acacia gives me the tools I ...

Professor Robert W. Bower, Inventor of the Self-Aligned Gate MOSFET

Patent Partner testimonials

“As an inventor and patent attorney with over 55 years experience, I recognize that Acacia performs a vital function in enforcing the patents of individual inventors and small companies. When I became a patent attorney in 1953, patent litigation costs were much lower. It now may cost $3 to $6 million to pursue a patent case through appeal. That cost makes such litigation almost impossible for the inventor and small businessperson.” “For many years, ...

Eliot Gerber, Inventor and Patent Attorney

Patent Partner testimonials

“Timeline's initial efforts to license its 6 U.S. and 13 foreign patents were fruitful. However, within 6 weeks of voluntarily acquiring a license, the licensee filed suit asking a court to throw out any meaningful restrictions on sublicensing. Over the next 8 years, Timeline endured a variety of legal challenges in 4 different courts. The strategy was to break Timeline's back financially. And it worked. After expending over $3,500,000 in costs and ...

Charlie Osenbaugh, President of Timeline, Inc.

Patent Partner testimonials

“OSS is a technology innovation company with a portfolio of patents relating generally to information security. After unsuccessfully trying to license our portfolio to various large and small technology companies, we chose Acacia as our partner. As a small company with limited funding, partnering with Acacia and leveraging their financial resources, contacts, and deep experience has proved to be a terrific decision. Acacia was able to create a revenue ...

Rob Friedman, CEO of Open Security Solutions, LLC

Patent Partner testimonials

“We were introduced to Acacia by an inventor who had worked with them and been impressed by their professionalism and ethics. I’m happy to say our own experience mirrored his, and that once Acacia became involved, we were finally able to license our background replacement video technology. Given our success, we had no reticence engaging them to represent us in other IP deals. As a small partnership with few resources, we have no doubt that Acacia’s ...

Michael Steffano, Partner of Digital Property Management Group

Patent Partner testimonials

“Our patent is of a scale that the inventors cannot effectively represent it in the market alone. There is concern that larger, more well-financed companies may take advantage of our invention if the patent laws are compromised to provide less protection for the rights of patent holders. The services of Acacia Research Group, in representing the interests of patent holders in emerging technologies and defending the historical rights of inventors is ...

Marshall Dobry, Co-Inventor of RFID Security and Reorder System

Patent Partner testimonials

“I was introduced to Acacia by my patent attorney after our numerous, earnest attempts to reach an infringement settlement were blatantly (I might say arrogantly) ignored by 3 large technology companies. From the start, Acacia has been integrity-centered, consistent in their communication and thoroughly professional. Inventors need companies like Acacia to help them realize the value of their inventions. Without them, innovation would be stifled. ...

Larry Miller, Inventor

Patent Partner testimonials

“The USPTO mission is to ensure that the intellectual property system contributes to a strong global economy, encourages investment in innovation, and fosters entrepreneurial spirit. Some of the most innovative entrepreneurs are individuals. However, without an ally with experience and integrity, individual inventors have no chance of protecting their inventions. Innovation is what made this country great. Protection of this innovation and it’s ...

Christopher Wiggins, Inventor

Patent Partner testimonials

“The competitiveness of the United States is very dependent upon the ability of individual inventors to realize a return on their efforts, hard work and investments required to receive a patent and then to actually obtain and agreement with companies utilizing the patented technologies. I searched long and hard to find a proven partner, Acacia that was very effective in identifying licensing candidates and then negotiated agreements. Acacia provides ...

Dale Hiatt, Inventor and President of Table Rock Technologies

Patent Partner testimonials

“Over the years I made several inventions that became the standards in their fields. Some were not patented. No one was interested in licensing others. Happily, Acacia is making efforts to license one of my inventions to an automobile company that has practiced it for several years and not given me compensation.” “I believe Acacia is an asset to America that might help to bring about significant changes. For many years I have known how to make an ...

Peter Norton, Inventor

Patent Partner testimonials

“I want to tell you about my impressions of working with Acacia Research. I live and work in Guatemala. Since I graduated from Stanford University, I designed a number of ideas that I hoped could help those in need in my country and elsewhere. It was at that time that I wrote my patent applications. ” “I later spent years trying to develop and market software based on my patents but found no large software companies willing to work with me. I won ...

Carlos Armando Amado, Inventor

Patent Partner testimonials

“I chose to assign my patents to Acacia because of their strong track record of success and their compassionate professionalism. I have since received substantial royalty payments as a result of licensing agreements with major multinational corporations. ” “Prior to engaging with Acacia, I operated a successful business deriving revenue from early adopters. As we gained market share, we were approached by larger solution vendors and entered into an ...

Gary Kellstrom, Jr., Inventor, Founder & President of Innovative Dynamics Corp.

Patent Partner testimonials

“I heartily recommend Acacia to others and applaud their contribution to encouraging innovation and keeping alive the opportunity for individual inventors to receive equitable returns on their intellectual property.” “I developed a software technology fifteen years ago and tried unsuccessfully for several years to license it to a dozen or so large software companies. I gave up hope of ever seeing a return on my investment of time and money after I ...

Jerry Jackson, Ph.D., Inventor, Computer-Based Visual Data Evaluation Software

Patent Partner testimonials

“When I first started inventing, a family member, who was a very prominent inventor, told me that good inventions are always copied. Consequently, he said I needed two things to protect myself: IP protection and muscle behind it. I took care of the IP and was able to license the invention to a large company. At some point the company decided it could make a lot more money if it canceled the licensing deal and continued to manufacture the product. ...

Kurt A. Schroder, Ph.D., Inventor

announcements

Acacia Subsidiary Partners With A Leading Semiconductor Company On Patents Related to DisplayPort And MIPI DSI

April 15, 2014

Acacia Research To Release First Quarter Financial Results And Host Conference Call

April 10, 2014

Acacia Subsidiary Enters Into Settlement Agreement Regarding Wireless Medical Diagnosis And Monitoring Systems

April 7, 2014

events

April 17, 2014

Live Webcast: Acacia Research To Release First Quarter Financial Results And Host Conference Call

Conference Call

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May 28-29, 2014

Cowen & Company 42nd Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference

New York, NY

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February 20, 2014

Live Webcast: Acacia Research To Release Fourth Quarter And Year End Financial Results And Host Conference Call

Conference Call

In the news

Seeking To Profit From Patents

Los Angeles Times

04/06/2014

How To Value IP Portfolios For Acquisition

Intellectual Asset Management Magazine

Issue 57 January/February 2014

The Hidden Agenda Behind Patent Reform

IPWatchdog, Inc.

November 6, 2013

Case Studies

ACCESS Case Study

ACCESS Case Study

Founded in Japan in 1979, ACCESS Co. Ltd. is a pioneering software developer for connected and mobile devices. In 2005, ACCESS acquired PalmSource, the software spinout of mobile device innovator Palm Computing, Inc. ACCESS merged the ...

Case Studies

Dr. David Breed and Automotive Technologies International Case Study

Dr. David Breed and Automotive Technologies International Case Study

Dr. David Breed, Chairman of Automotive Technologies International (ATI), and Acacia Research began collaborating on the monetization of his 300+ patent portfolio in February of 2012. Dr. Breed, a seminal U.S. inventor of automotive ...

Case Studies

Damodar Periwal and Software Tree – A Case Study

Damodar Periwal and Software Tree – A Case Study

After years working at various high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, computer scientist Damodar Periwal founded “Software Tree.” Software Tree invented a novel system that seamlessly exchanges data and commands between relational ...

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White Papers and Articles

Patent Lawsuits: Senate Legislation Would Seriously Damage Innovation Sector (2/2014)

This story appears in the San Jose Mercury News. By Ben Pless and David J. Kappos, February 11, 2014. Ben Pless is president and CEO of Autonomic Technologies. David J. Kappos is a partner at, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and former director of the U.S. Patent and Trade Office.

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White Papers and Articles

Obama on Patents: The One-sided USPTO Patent Litigation Beta (2/2014)

Written by Gene Quinn, President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc., Patent Attorney, Reg. No. 44,294 on February 26, 2014.

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White Papers and Articles

Thank Heavens For Those Patent Trolls (2/2014)

This story appears in the February 10, 2014 issue of Forbes. By Capitol Flows, Contributor with guest commentary curated by Forbes Opinion. Avik Roy, Editor.