Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000010
Chunk: 69

Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 69
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ated 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 the qualifications and restrictions thereon, shall be as follows in this Section 2.

2.1 Dividends . Subject to the rights, preferences, privileges, restrictions and other matters pertaining to the Preferred Stock that may at that time be outstanding, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of any assets of the Corporation legally available therefore, such dividends as may be declared from time to time by the Board of Directors.

2.2 Voting Rights . Except as otherwise required by law, or as otherwise fixed by resolution or resolutions of