Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE: CBSH) is a bank holding company headquartered at 1000 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri, whose principal subsidiary is Commerce Bank. The bank traces its founding to 1865 (the holding company was incorporated in 1966) and is publicly traded on NASDAQ/NYSE under ticker CBSH. It employs roughly 4,700–5,000 people and reported revenue in the range of $1.5–2.1 billion in recent years, per company filings and third-party profiles; it is not a subsidiary of another institution. CEO is John W. Kemper.
Commerce Bank operates as a regional bank across Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, Colorado and Florida, plus commercial offices elsewhere. Its lines of business are commercial banking (corporate lending, merchant and commercial card products, treasury/payment solutions, leasing and international services), consumer banking (checking, savings, installment loans, mortgages, debit and credit cards through 140+ branches and 250+ ATMs), and private wealth and institutional asset management (Commerce Trust, ranked among the largest bank-managed trust companies, plus Commerce Family Office). It acquired FineMark Holdings in an all-stock deal valued at about $528.5 million, effective January 1, 2026.
Patent-litigation posture: operating company defending against an NPE. The single tracked case, Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. et al. (W.D. Mo., No. 2:13-cv-04160, filed June 20, 2013), lists Commerce as defendant and Commerce Bank as co-defendant. Commerce has zero tracked plaintiff-side suits. The case was part of Intellectual Ventures' 2013 wave of suits against dozens of banks.
Intellectual Ventures II asserted five patents (nos. 5,745,574; 6,826,694; 6,715,084; 6,314,409; 7,634,666) covering electronic-transaction security, access control, firewall monitoring, digital-property distribution and cryptographic processing, targeting Commerce's PCI-related security practices and its ROAMPay mobile payment offering. Commerce moved to stay pending inter partes review; the court granted the stay on June 4, 2014, dismissing the case without prejudice pending the IPRs. Every asserted claim was ultimately found unpatentable or invalid (the Federal Circuit affirmed as to the '694 and '084 patents, No. 2016-1519), and final judgment was entered for Commerce. Commerce then sought attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285; the court declined to find the case exceptional. Note the case was filed in the Western District of Missouri, not the Eastern District of Texas.
Intellectual Ventures II LLC asserted U.S. Patent 6,826,694, along with U.S. Patents 5,745,574, 6,715,084, 6,314,409, and 7,634,666, against Commerce Bancshares, Inc. and Commerce Bank in the 2013 IV II banking campaign. The case was stayed pending IPR by order on June 4, 2014; final disposition was not confirmed.