Practice Expertise

  • Intellectual Property & Intellectual ...
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Trademark
  • Intellectual Property

Areas of Practice

  • Intellectual Property
  • Intellectual Property & Intellectual ...
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Trademark
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Privacy and Data Security
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Profile

Matthew Hays is an associate in Dykema's Privacy and Data Security and Intellectual Property groups. Mr. Hays’s privacy and data security practice includes advising clients on issues of risk assessment, policies and procedures, corporate compliance projects, and drafting comprehensive website terms and conditions, privacy notices, and data sensitive vendor service agreements. He has also assisted clients in avoiding and addressing legal and regulatory exposure through prompt response to data security incidents. Mr. Hays is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and has notable experience handling compliance matters related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
 
Mr. Hays is also a registered patent attorney and has practiced on a broad range of intellectual property matters with an emphasis on enforcing patent, trade secret and trademark rights in litigation. Mr. Hays also has experience helping clients obtain patent and trademark protection across a broad range of software and mechanical technologies and has engaged in strategic patent portfolio management and corporate due diligence involving intellectual property assets.
 
While in law school, Mr. Hays was selected as a Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium Fellow and acted as editor for the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Bar Admissions

Illinois, 2016

Education
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D., magna cum laude

  • Order of the Coif
University of Cincinnati, B.S., Chemical Engineering

Areas of Practice

  • Intellectual Property
  • Intellectual Property & Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Trademark
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Privacy and Data Security

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