I have no specific information, but I suspect it's Dan Abelow (http://www.abelow.com), a patent troll who runs a bunch of patent trolling LLCs (Lodsys, Webventions, etc).

What a sad little man. He should stick to his 'hobby' (whose inclusion on the site just adds that extra soupçon of patheticness)

How do you know he runs Lodsys or Webventions?

Do you have any evidence he's a patent troll?

1.) I read his website.

2.) I Googled terms including "abelow", "lodsys", and "patent troll".

In other words, he plainly states he runs those businesses on the provided links and has a history of patent trolling.

1) His website says his patents are owned by Lodsys and Webventions. I did not see anything that said he runs those companies. What I find by Googling is that one or both of these companies may be owned by Intellectual Ventures, or if not owned by IV, they likely acquired their Abelow patents from IV. Abelow seems to be at least two steps removed from both companies.

2) I see nothing in those Google searches that shows a history of patent trolling, unless you are using a very broad definition of patent trolling (one so broad as to be close to meaningless).

Lodsys has now verified that they acquired the Abelow patents from IV, which acquired them from Abelow.

It's called MacroSolve.

Edit: Never mind, they're a completely different patent troll feeding on indie iOS developers. Shameful.

No, that was debunked: https://twitter.com/#!/jamesthomson/status/69028047730384896

My guess is that it's this company called Lodsys LLC. Yesterday someone posted in the TouchArcade developer forum that they received patent claims from them for similar functionality.

Link to article about Lodesys http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/13/lodsys-threatens-to-sue-...

Here's a list of their patents: http://www.lodsys.com/our-patents.html

It seems the "inventor" behind lodsys was also involved in webvention lawsuits [1] for the image rollover patents [2] and demanding $80000 for licensing fees [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/patent-troll... [2] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...