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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (729)	11/24/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 19428

ACACIA RESEARCH AFFILIATE OPENS BETA TESTING OF PERSONALIZED E-M 11/24/98 8:45 email Product; Changes Name to Signature-mail.com Business Editors & High-Tech Writers PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 1998-- E-Mail is Internet's Largest Activity -- Estimated 80 Million E-Mail Users in 1998 Acacia Research Corp. (Nasdaq/NM:ACRI) Tuesday announced that affiliate Internet Software LLC has changed its name to Signature-mail.com llc to focus the Alexandria, Va., company's marketing and branding efforts for its Signature-mail product on the Internet. Personalized beta versions of Signature-mail are now available for a free download at signature-mail.com. Beta testers will receive a complimentary copy of the commercial product. Signature-mail, a proprietary software product, currently works for more than 25 million Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT e-mail users of Netscape Communicator/Messenger, Microsoft IE4/Outlook Express, Outlook 98, AOL 4.0 and Eudora Pro 4.1, and will soon be available for the Macintosh platform. Signature-mail enables users to personalize their e-mail and computer documents by including an image of their handwritten signatures, greetings and drawings, and by easily changing the image's size and color. Signature-mail.com currently has the technical capacity to sell and immediately deliver online up to 500,000 custom-produced Signature-mail software programs per month, and is readily upscalable. The company has a series of five patent applications and several more are in process for unique product features as well as methods used for automated mass customization of the production and delivery of Signature-mail. Signature-mail.com is also developing additional proprietary technologies for other platforms and products. E-mail is the largest, most popular Internet activity. Industry analysts project that e-mail users will increase from 80 million today to more than 200 million by the end of 2000. It is predicted that almost all e-mail will be HTML-enabled by the end of 1999. The rapid adaptation of HTML as the standard for e-mail will significantly increase the market for Signature-mail. Signature-mail.com's mission is to become the leading provider of products and services that personalize e-mail with proprietary mass customization technologies. The company will sell through electronic and conventional media and deliver its products directly to customers online. Acacia acquired a 25 percent interest in Signature-mail.com in April 1998. Acacia is a diversified company with interests in several enterprises: CombiMatrix Corp. (biochips/drug discovery technology), Greenwich Information Technologies LLC (video and audio-on-demand technology), Signature-mail.com llc (personalized e-mail product), MerkWerks Corp. (software development), Soundview Technologies Inc. (V-chip technology), Whitewing Labs Inc. (marketer of nutritional supplements), and Acacia Capital Management (investment advisory services). --30--WAM/la* ECQ/la CONTACT: Acacia Research Corp., Pasadena Kathryn King-Van Wie, 626/449-6431 KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA VIRGINIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET PRODUCT COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com -0- Nov/24/1998 8:30 EOS (BUS) Nov/24/98 08:30 86 -0- (BUS) Nov/24/1998 8:45