They’ve got bad blood.
Pop star Taylor Swift has filed suit against a Long Island man who claimed she stole his company name for her gaming app “The Swift Life” — and she’s accusing him of fraud.
The songstress is demanding that a Brooklyn federal judge cancel small business owner Patrick Benot’s “Swiftlife” trademark, per the newly filed lawsuit. She also wants Benot, who runs a computer company in Wantagh, to pay her legal fees.
On top of that, she’s demanding his suit against her be dismissed.
While Benot’s suit, filed in July 2018, blasts the singer for not checking to see if “Swiftlife” was already trademarked, Swift’s lawyers say it doesn’t matter if it was.
Benot complained that he was caused “endless grief” when his one-man company was contacted by app users looking for help with Swift’s game.
Swift and her lawyers “admit that they do not have a license from Plaintiff, [and] deny that it is necessary or legally required that they do so,” the document reads.
The papers also accuse Benot of lying about his trademark, which he claims is registered under “Swiftlife.” The celeb’s lawyers say it’s actually registered under the name “S.L. Swiftlife Computer Services.”
The countersuit additionally accuses Benot of not contacting her before he filed his lawsuit, which is against the law.
But in a conversation with the Post, Benot denied the allegations, and said Swift’s app has dashed his dreams of growing his business.
“It’s my name, and my name was pretty much taken, and it’s gone,” the 33-year-old said. “How am I supposed to grow to be a big name company like Microsoft now that my name is gone?”
Benot says his company name is a nod to a terminal illness he had as a child, and his new outlook following a liver transplant when he was just 11-years-old.
“I decided to call it Swiftlife because life is too swift,” he stated.
Swift’s suit comes after a judge last month declined to dismiss Benot’s lawsuit.
The gaming app is expected to shut down this month.