NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2006--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) (Nasdaq: CBMX) announced today that Software Collaboration Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary that is part of the Acacia Technologies group, a leader in technology licensing, has entered into a license with Convoq, Inc., a provider of desktop video and web conferencing services, covering a patent that applies to web conferencing and collaboration software. The Web Conferencing and Collaboration Software technology generally relates to certain network and web conferencing and collaboration software systems. Specifically, two or more users at different computer terminals interact with the same display to simultaneously view, annotate, and edit documents of any type, regardless of which user supplies the document or software application being utilized.
