Commerce Bancshares

Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) is a bank holding company headquartered at 1000 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Its banking predecessor dates to 1865; the holding company was incorporated in 1966. It is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and is not a subsidiary of another institution. Public sources put headcount in the roughly 4,500–5,000 range, annual revenue near $1.7–1.9 billion (2024–2025), and market capitalization in the high single-digit billions as of 2026.

Its principal operating subsidiary, Commerce Bank, is a regional/mid-sized commercial bank. Offerings include retail and commercial deposit accounts, consumer and commercial loans and credit lines, mortgage lending, credit and debit card services, treasury and cash management for business clients, and trust/wealth management. It operates a branch and commercial banking footprint concentrated in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado, and ranked as roughly the 64th largest U.S. commercial bank by Federal Reserve data as of September 30, 2025.

Litigation posture: operating company defending against NPE assertions. The structured data shows one tracked appearance, captioned as plaintiff (Commerce Bancshares v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and zero appearances as a defendant in the tracked set. That single entry reflects Commerce's role as cross-appellant in an appeal arising from Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, not a business of asserting patents. The underlying dispute was brought against the bank: Intellectual Ventures II LLC sued Commerce Bancshares and Commerce Bank in the Western District of Missouri (No. 2:13-cv-04160), alleging infringement of network security/firewall and digital rights management patents. That matter was not an Eastern District of Texas case.

Context. Commerce joined Compass Bank and First National Bank of Omaha in inter partes reviews (including IPR2014‑00801) challenging Intellectual Ventures patents, including U.S. Patent 6,715,084. The district case was stayed pending the PTAB proceedings; the Board found the asserted claims unpatentable, and the Federal Circuit affirmed on March 27, 2017 (consolidated Nos. 2016‑1519, ‑1520, ‑1528), a result press coverage characterized as significant for financial-services defendants facing non-practicing-entity suits over banking technology.