Expensify Inc. v. Swappoint AG

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division EXPENSIFY, INC., Case No. 22-cv-05720-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

SWAPPOINT AG, et al., Re: ECF No. 13 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION This is a trademark dispute between plaintiff Expensify, a U.S. provider of expense-reporting services, and defendants Swappoint and Karmapoint, jointly owned Swiss providers of a mobile application and associated website. Expensify uses the “Karma Points” mark in connection with its corporate credit card to allow customers to direct the money value of their credit-card reward points to charitable causes. It alleges that it has common-law rights to the mark. The defendants have the U.S.-registered mark “Karmapoint” that they use in connection with their app, which allows users to accumulate points for good deeds. Expensify alleges that the defendants registered their mark in the…