Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000014
Chunk: 73

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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ifies that:

A. The name of the Corporation is Acacia Research Corporation. The Corporations original Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 8, 1999.

B. This Fourth Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and restated, integrates, and further amends the provisions of the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation.

C. The text of the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is amended and restated to read as set forth in EXHIBIT A attached hereto.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Acacia Research Corporation has caused this Fourth Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by Jennifer Graff, a duly authorized officer of the Corporation, on [●], 2025 May 18, 2022 .

Jennifer Graff

Secretary

### EXHIBIT A

## ARTICLE I
NAME

The name of the corporation is Acacia Research Corporation (the “Corporation”).

<div align='center'>ARTICLE II
ADDRESS OF REGISTERED OFFICE;
NAME OF REGISTERED AGENT</div>

The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware 838 38 Walker Road, Suite 21-2, Dover, Delaware 19904 and in the County of Kent , Delaware . The name of its registered agent at such address is Registered Agent Solutions, Inc.

## ARTICLE III
PURPOSE

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”).

## ARTICLE IV
CAPITAL STOCK

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION . The aggregate number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is three hundred and ten million (310,000,000) shares, of which three hundred million (300,000,000) shares shall be shares of common stock having a par value of $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and ten million (10,000,000) shares shall be shares of preferred stock having a par value of $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”) and issuable in one or more series as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. COMMON STOCK . The voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of the Common Stock, and