| Acacia Research agrees to license technology to French software maker ...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Acacia Research Corp. said Wednesday that its Disc Link Corp. subsidiary has agreed to license patented technology to French software maker Dassault Systemes SA. The agreement covers patents relating to portable storage devices with links. The technology generally relates to products sold or distributed on CDs or DVDs that include a link to retrieve additional data from the Internet. Acacia Research's subsidiaries control 90 patent portfolios. The company's shares dropped 30 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $7.54 in afternoon trading. The stock has plunged from a 52-week high of $17.92 in mid-November to a low of $7.63 on Jan. 9. .
AP NewsBreak: 2 Academy Awards shows in the works in case strike ...
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards were announced last week. In past years, presenters were announced one-by-one before or shortly after the nominations, but none have been named so far this year. Final ballots were mailed Wednesday to the 5,829 voting members of the academy. They are due back Feb. 19. .
Overstock Reappears on the Regulation SHO Threshold List
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) announced that today, after a mere six trading day reprieve, it has reappeared on Nasdaq's Regulation SHO threshold list. (Source: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/aspx/regsho.aspx). Regulation SHO requires the stock exchanges to publish daily a list of companies whose stock has failures-to-deliver above a certain threshold. It also requires mandatory close-outs for open fail-to-deliver positions in threshold securities persisting for over 13 days, with the aim that no security would appear on the threshold for any extended period. Overstock has now appeared on the Regulation SHO threshold list for 710 trading days -- nearly the entire time the list existed. "After spending 669 consecutive trading days on the list, when we dropped off the list last week, we cautiously hoped that it was an indication that efforts to reform Regulation SHO were working," said Overstock senior vice president, corporate affairs and legal Jonathan Johnson.
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She set out as she had done every Sunday afternoon for years. She locked her door, turned to the weather, and held the hand rail as she stepped carefully down from the porch. Once on the ground she adjusted her hat on her gray head. As this was a winter day in the Christmas season, a cold day, she also adjusted her coat. Had it been raining, she would have pulled a large lawn and leaf bag, as if it were a poncho, over her head and upper body. Most times she shouldered her hand bag. This day she also shouldered a bulging plastic shopping bag. She walked along the dirt road that would lead her to the paved road that would lead her to the highway. Her only company was her shadow, small and indistinct at her feet. She walked without the deliberate care of someone unfamiliar with the terrain, but neither was her gait quick.
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