D. C. Toedt (the last name is pronounced “Tate”), a member of the Texas and California bars, is an attorney, arbitrator, and part-time law professor; he is a past chair of the Houston chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada).
D.C. was formerly a partner and member of the management committee at Arnold, White &Durkee, at the time the second-largest IP litigation boutique in the U.S., with some150lawyers in six cities. During the dot-com era, D.C. left AW&D to join a publicly-traded software company, BindView Corporation, as vice president and general counsel; as outside counsel, he had helped the founders to start the company. He served there until the company’s successful “exit” when it was acquired by Symantec Corporation, the world leader in the company’s field.
Among other publications, D.C. was the lead author of the first edition of a one-volume treatise, The Law and Business of Computer Software. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in math (high honors) and law (law review); between college and law school he served his ROTC scholarship payback time as a U.S. Navy nuclear engineering officer in the Rickover program
