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CUSIP No. 92347M 10 0
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13D
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Responses to each item of this Statement on Schedule 13D are incorporated by reference into the
responses to each other item, as applicable.
This statement constitutes Amendment No. 5 (Amendment No. 5) to the Statement on
Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) by Acacia Research Corporation (Acacia or the Reporting Person) on August 31, 2018, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to
Schedule 13D filed on December 6, 2018, Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D filed on December 17, 2018, Amendment No. 3 to Schedule 13D filed on January 15, 2019 and Amendment No. 4 filed on March 7,
2019 (as amended, the Original Schedule 13D), relating to the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 (the Shares), of Veritone, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Issuer). This Amendment No. 5 amends
the Original Schedule 13D as specifically set forth herein, and, except as amended and supplemented hereby, the Original Schedule 13D remains in full force and effect. All capitalized terms contained but not otherwise defined herein shall
have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Original Schedule 13D.
Item 3.
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Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration
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The first sentence of Item 3 of the Original Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
As of the date hereof, the Reporting Person may be deemed to beneficially own an aggregate of 1,775,214 Shares after selling 50,000 Shares,
43,300 Shares, 80,000 Shares, 50,000 Shares and 6,690 Shares on March 1, 2019, March 4, 2019, April 3, 2019, April 4, 2019 and April 5, 2019, respectively (the Sale).
Item 5.
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Interest in Securities of the Issuer
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Item 5(a) of the Original Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
(a) The percentage of Shares beneficially owned by each Reporting Person is based on 19,703,219 Shares issued and outstanding as of March 8, 2019, as
reported in the Issuers Annual Report on
Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2018.
The
information contained on the cover page(s) of this Statement on Schedule 13D for the beneficial ownership of the Reporting Person is incorporated herein by reference. The Reporting Person beneficially owns an aggregate of 1,775,214 Shares,
representing 8.52% of the Shares, including 1,120,432 Shares underlying warrants to purchase common stock. The Reporting Person has sole voting and dispositive power with respect to all 1,775,214 Shares held by the Reporting Person.
Item 5(c) of the Original Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
(c) The Reporting Person has not effected any transaction with respect to Shares of the Issuer during the past 60 days, other than the Sale as described
in Item 3 above.