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 STAY

v. Re: ECF No. 40 SWAPPOINT AG, et al., 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 U.S. (and around the world) to cover “an…