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Item
5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On January 4, 2016, the Compensation Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board of Directors of Acacia Research Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), modified Section XIV of the Company’s 2013 Acacia Research Corporation Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), pursuant to its authority as the “Plan Administrator” under Section XIX of the Plan, to provide that in the 2016 fiscal year the Company’s non-employee directors will not receive automatic grants of restricted stock units
under the Plan as otherwise provided by that Section. For the 2016 fiscal year, any grants of restricted stock units under the Plan to the Company’s non-employee directors shall be at the discretion of the Committee.
SIGNATURES
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