Andrew Papadopoulos

Andrew Papadopoulos is an Executive in the firm's Intellectual Property Law practice at ENS, based in South Africa. He has more than 20 years of experience in enforcing and defending intellectual property rights, including trade mark oppositions, cancellations and infringements, copyright disputes, unlawful competition matters, geographical indications, company name objections, advertising complaints, domain name disputes, and counterfeiting matters.

Mr. Papadopoulos acts for large foreign and local corporates and has been involved in high-profile litigation matters over the years, including many proceedings before the Supreme Court of Appeal, and is one of the few IP practitioners with matters proceeding to the Constitutional Court of South Africa. His experience extends beyond South Africa into Africa and other foreign countries, offering clients global and holistic enforcement strategies.

He holds a BCom (Law) from Rand Afrikaans University and an LLB from the University of Johannesburg, and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is a member of the Copyright Law Committee of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law, a senior adjudicator of the .co.za ADR panel, and a member of the Legislation and Regulation Committee of the International Trademark Association.

He has been recognized by Managing IP as an IP Star (2017-2025), by WTR Global Leaders (2026), and by WIPR Leaders as a Leading IP practitioner in trade mark enforcement and prosecution (2026).