Andrew Papadopoulos is an Executive at ENS in the firm’s Intellectual Property & Innovation litigation practice.

Andrew has more than 2 decades of experience in enforcing and defending intellectual property rights, including trade mark oppositions, cancellations and infringements, copyright disputes, unlawful competition matters, geographical indications (GI), company name objections, advertising complaints before the Advertising Regulatory Board, domain name disputes (ADR, UDRP and URS), regulatory disputes (food, liquor and product labelling) and counterfeiting matters. Andrew acts for large foreign and local corporates and has been involved in high profile litigation matters over the years, including many proceeding to the Supreme Court of Appeal, as well as being one of the few IP practitioners with matters proceeding to the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Andrew’s experience extends beyond South Africa, into Africa and other foreign countries, offering clients global and holistic enforcement strategies.

Andrew is a member of the Copyright Law Committee of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (“SAIIPL”), a senior adjudicator of the .co.za Alternate Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) panel of the SAIIPL, is a past member of the GI Committee of the International Trademark Association (“INTA”), and is a member of the Legislation and Regulation Committee of INTA.

Andrew is recognised as a leading/recommended lawyer by:

• Legal 500 – 2017 - Trade mark Litigation (South Africa)
• IP Expert of the Year – 2016 (South Africa)
• IP Stars from Managing IP – 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 (South Africa)
• WTR Global Leaders – 2026 (South Africa)
• World Trade Mark Review, WIPR Leaders – Leading IP practitioner in respect of trade mark enforcement and prosecution - 2026 (South Africa)