About

My name is D. C. Toedt. I’m a business lawyer, with an intellectual-property and software-law background. I’m in private practice in Houston; I spend part of my time developing the TATE Compendium.

I was formerly the general counsel of a publicly-traded software company, with 700-plus employees and offices in six countries, until we were acquired by the field’s worldwide leader. Before joining that company, I was a partner and an elected member of the policy committee at one of the largest intellectual-property law firms in the U.S. (where the company was one of my clients; I helped the founder do the start-up).

My last name is pronounced as if it were Tate. I go by “DC” because there’s a Roman numeral III after my name.

Contact info: My email address is dc // attt // toedt //dahtt // commm (CAUTION: DO NOT send me any confidential information without my prior agreement; see the Cautions page).

Disclaimer: Any views I might express here are my own and not necessarily those of my clients, my former employer, my former law firm, etc., etc.