Andrew Sim

Mr. Sim regularly assists clients in strategizing their intellectual property rights and directing anti-counterfeiting operations in the areas of trademarks, copyright, trade names, passing off, unfair competition, designs, labeling laws, consumer, media and advertising laws. Mr. Sim’s practice also includes domain name, Internet and technology laws. Mr. Sim is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong. He is a qualified New York attorney-at-law, admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore and a solicitor in England and Wales, and is a barrister-at-law in the UK. He is also a registered patent agent in Singapore.

• Assisted Starbucks Corporation in obtaining judicial well-known recognition of their trademarks in Shanghai, PRC, and well-known recognition of their trademark in the PRC Trademark Office.
• Assisted Harley-Davidson in obtaining IP protection of their unregistered trademark in a civil lawsuit before Beijing Intermediate People’s Court and Beijing Higher People’s Court.
• Assisted Hasbro in securing their first successful IP infringement lawsuit in the PRC in Guangzhou.
• Assisted a leading mobile phone manufacturer in filing a petition with the Supreme People’s Court for a retrial.
• Assisted a leading fashion group in obtaining well-known trademark recognition in the PRC Trademark Review & Adjudication Board.
• Advised a leading fashion group and assisting in securing their first successful trademark infringement lawsuit in relation to their 3-D bottle mark in Shandong province.

• New York State Bar Association - Attorney
• Law Society of Singapore - Advocate & Solicitor
• Lincoln's Inn - Barrister
• Patent Register, Singapore - Patent Agent
• Law Society of England & Wales - Solicitor

• Hong Kong
• Shanghai