NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX)(Nasdaq:ACTG) announced today the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill, recently signed into law by President Bush, includes two new allocations of $1.0M each for the CombiMatrix Group. This funding will support efforts by CombiMatrix to continue the development and deployment of its microarray technologies for the detection of biological-threat agents and infectious pathogens such as the highly pathogenic Eurasian Influenza A Virus (H5N1).
