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It's still speculation. Lodsys has come out to flat out deny any partnership or involvement in any way[1], but the #078 patent was originally assigned to Ferrera Etherial LLC in 2004, and then Webvention LLC in 2009, and then finally to Lodsys in 2010. A 2009 Law.com article [2] cites Ferrara Ethereal LLC as a shell company of IV. There is no knowledge of who or what Webvention is, except that it holds a ghost office in the same area as many other known or speculated shell companies IV operates.

Useful trivia: #7,222,078 [3] also happens to be the main patent behind Lodsys v. (independent iOS and Android developers), with #7,620,565 [4] backing it up. Lodsys only holds 4 patents, all four are cited as

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...

[2] http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?i...

[3] http://www.google.com/patents?vid=7222078

[4] http://www.google.com/patents?vid=7620565