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Acacia Technologies Licenses Two Additional Cable TV Companies; Company Also Adds 7 Internet Licensees and Has Now Signed 169 DMT Technology License Agreements.


NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif. -- Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG ACTG Acting
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)(Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that its Acacia Technologies
''Acacia Technologies was also the name of division within Computer Associates that effectively closed down in 2002 when its assets were sold to SSA Global Technologies.
 group, a technology licensing company, has entered into two additional license agreements for its Digital Media Transmission ("DMT See DSL. ") technology in the cable television industry.

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, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are pleased that we are making progress in licensing our DMT(R) technology to the cable TV industry. Acacia Technologies has now signed license agreements with four cable companies in the last six weeks."

The licenses to Seren Innovations, Inc. and Boulder Ridge Cable TV resolve a patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver.  lawsuit filed by Acacia on June 15, 2004 against the two companies, which were pending in the District Court for the Northern District of California.

Rob Berman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel stated, "We continue to gain momentum in licensing the cable TV industry. We are also expanding our base of Internet licensees, including seven in the last two weeks and fifteen in the past four weeks."

Acacia has entered into 169 license agreements for its DMT(R) technology for cable TV, corporate websites, e-learning, hotel on-demand TV services, and online entertainment, movies, music, news, and sports.

Earlier this quarter, the Company executed on its strategy of acquiring additional patents by acquiring a patent that covers technology and methods for redirecting users to login pages when accessing the Internet and has potential licensing opportunities, which include wireless "hotspots" and hotel high-speed Internet access.

About Acacia Research Coporation

Acacia Research Corporation comprises two operating groups, Acacia Technologies group and CombiMatrix group.

The Acacia Technologies group develops, acquires, and licenses patented technologies. Acacia's DMT(R) technology, which is supported by 5 U.S. and 31 foreign patents, relates to audio and audio/video transmission and receiving systems commonly known as audio-on-demand, video-on-demand, and audio/video streaming, and is used for distributing digital content via several means including Internet, cable, satellite and wireless systems.

The CombiMatrix group is developing a platform technology to rapidly produce customizable active biochips, which are semiconductor-based tools for use in identifying and determining the roles of genes, gene mutations and proteins. CombiMatrix's technology has a wide range of applications including DNA DNA: see nucleic acid.
DNA
 or deoxyribonucleic acid

One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes.
 synthesis/diagnostics, drug discovery, and immunochemical im·mu·no·chem·is·try  
n.
The chemistry of immunologic phenomena, as of antigen-antibody reactions.



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 detection. CombiMatrix's Express Track(SM) drug discovery program is a systems biology approach, using its technology, to target common viral diseases with siRNA compounds.

Acacia Research-Acacia Technologies (Nasdaq:ACTG) and Acacia Research-CombiMatrix (Nasdaq:CBMX) are both classes of common stock issued by Acacia Research Corporation and are intended to reflect the performance of the respective operating groups and are not issued by the operating groups.

Information about the Acacia Technologies group and the CombiMatrix group is available at www.acaciaresearch.com.

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