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Item
8.01 Other Events.
Delaware Display Group LLC and Innovative Display Technologies LLC, subsidiaries of Acacia Research Corporation, entered into an agreement with VIZIO, Inc. This agreement resolves patent litigation, Civil Action Nos. 1:13-cv-02112 and 1:15-cv-01221 pending in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and Civil Action No. 2:16-cv-00932 pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
