Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000010
Chunk: 67

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 67
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 these stockholders wishes to continue receiving individual copies. This procedure will reduce our printing costs and postage fees. Stockholders who participate in householding will continue to receive separate proxy cards.

If you are eligible for householding, but you and other stockholders of record with whom you share an address currently receive multiple copies of this Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement and any accompanying documents, or if you hold our stock in more than one account, and in either case you wish to receive only a single copy of each of these documents for your household, please contact our Corporate Secretary at (949) 480-8300 or write to her at Acacia Research Corporation, 767 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017.

If you participate in householding and wish to receive a separate copy of this Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement and any accompanying documents, or if you do not wish to continue to participate in householding and prefer to receive separate copies of these documents in the future, please contact our Corporate Secretary as indicated above. Upon your written or oral request, we will promptly deliver you a separate copy of this Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement and accompanying documents.

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If you are a beneficial owner, you can request information about householding from your broker, bank or other holder of record.

#### Stockholder Proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting
Under Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act, any stockholder proposal must be delivered in writing to our Corporate Secretary and received at our principal executive offices at 767 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017 no later than [ ], in order to be considered for inclusion in our Proxy Statement relating to the 2026 Annual Meeting. Matters pertaining to such proposals, including the number and length thereof, and the eligibility of persons entitled to have such proposals included, are regulated by Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act, the rules and regulations of the SEC and other laws and regulations to which interested persons should refer.

Pursuant to our Bylaws, stockholder proposals, including stockholder nominations for candidates for election as directors, submitted for consideration at the 2026 Annual Meeting but not submitted for inclusion in our Proxy Statement relating to the 2026 Annual Meeting pursuant to Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act must be delivered to our Corporate Secretary in writing at 767 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017 not earlier