St. Louis professor files lawsuit against Square

St. Louis natives and Square co-founders Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey may have come up with the original idea for the mobile card reader, but a Washington University professor claims it was his technology that made the product possible.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Robert Morley filled suit Thursday alleging breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, patent infringement and fraud against Square and its co-founders, among other alleged offenses. Morley seeks an unspecified amount of damages.

The professor, who hold numerous patents on magnetic card reading technology, developed a Square prototype at McKelvey's request. Morley claims he alone invented the Square card reader and the magnetic stripe decoding algorithms on Square's app.

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