Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000010
Chunk: 57

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 57
---
 other “executive officers” not addressed above.                                                  |

Option Grant Practices

Since the Compensation Committee approved a new construct beginning in June 2023, the Compensation Committee has not used awards of stock options as an element of employee compensation for our executive officers and other employees. We therefore (i) do not grant, and have not granted, stock options in anticipation of the release of material nonpublic information, (ii) we do not time, and have not timed, the release of material nonpublic information based on stock option grant dates or for the purpose of affecting the value of executive compensation and (iii) we do not take, and have not taken, material nonpublic information into account when determining the timing and terms of stock options. As stock options are not an element of employee compensation, we do not have a formal policywith respect to the timing of stock option grants, and we did not grant stock options or stock appreciation rights in 2024.

<div align='center'>41</div>

#### Summary Compensation
The following table sets forth information concerning all cash and non-cash compensation earned for services rendered in all capacities to us during the last two fiscal years for our named executive officers.

### SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
| Name and Principal Position(s)     |     | Year |     | Salary ($)(1) |         |     | Bonus ($) |         |     | Stock Awards ($)(2) |         |     | Option Awards ($)(2) |         |     | Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($)(3) |         |     | All Other Compensation ($)(4) |        |     | Total ($) |           |
| Martin D. McNulty, Jr.             |     | 2024 |     |               | 496,154 |     |           |       — |     |                     |       — |     |                      |       — |     |                                               | 750,000 |     |                               | 20,268 |     |           | 1,266,422 |
| Chief Executive Officer(5)         |     | 2023 |     |               | 467,789 |     |           |       — |     |                     | 403,043 |     |                      |       — |     |                                               | 712,500 |     |                               | 20,136 |     |           | 1,603,468 |
| Kirsten Hoover                     |     | 2024 |     |               | 415,000 |     |