SACRAMENTO — Tucked into Square Inc.'s May 5 earnings report was a piece of jarring news: The company had paid $50 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Robert Morley, an electrical engineering professor who said he was the true inventor of the mobile credit card-reading device that made the San Francisco startup a multibilliondollar hit with investors.

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Originally published by THE RECORDER May 20, 2016 edition

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