Company: ACTG
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000934549-25-000014
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Company: ACACIA RESEARCH CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
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/ Gavin Molinelli                |
| Gavin Molinelli                    |
| Chairman of the Board of Directors |

The proxy materials related to the Annual Meeting are first being mailed on or about April 9, 2025.

If you have any questions or require any assistance with respect to voting your shares, please contact our proxy solicitor at the contact listed below:

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### ACACIA RESEARCH CORPORATION

#### 767 THIRD AVENUE, 6th FLOOR

#### NEW YORK, NY 10017

### NOTICE OF VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

#### TO BE HELD ON MAY 15, 2025
TO OUR STOCKHOLDERS:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the virtual 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Acacia Research Corporation (the “Company”) will be held on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 11:30 a.m., Eastern Time, via a live webcast, which can be accessed by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ACTG2025 .

To access the virtual Annual Meeting, you will need a 16-digit control number. The control number is provided on your proxy card or through your broker or other nominee if you hold your shares in “street name.”

Stockholders will be able to attend, vote and submit questions virtually during the Annual Meeting.

We are holding the Annual Meeting to consider and vote on the following proposals, as more fully described in the Proxy Statement accompanying this Notice of Annual Meeting:

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 2 | To elect seven directors to serve on our Board of Directors until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified;                                                                                                                   
 To ratify the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;                                                                                                                                               |
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| 3 | To approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the Proxy