Strengthening Your License – The Sequel to Mechanics of a License - Virtual Course - February 2026

	2/3/2026
When:	February 3 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Where:	Virtual Event United States
Contact:	Brooke Weldon bweldon@les.org (703) 468-8540

Faculty

Mihaela D. Bojin, Ph.D., CLP, Senior Associate Director, University of Iowa Research Foundation

Mihaela Bojin is a Senior Associate Director at the University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF).  She has extensive expertise in intellectual capital management (licensing, business and intellectual property assessment, partnerships) in a variety of areas, such as pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, medical devices, and software.

Mihaela is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She has been included several times in the IAM Strategy 300, an elite global group of IP strategists.

Prior to joining UIRF, Mihaela was a patent agent at a New York City Intellectual Property Practice Group, an assistant professor on tenure track at the City University of New York, and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis, and at New York University.  Mihaela holds a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Cornell University, and a BSc in Chemistry from University of Bucharest, Romania.

Mihaela is a Director on the LES USA & Canada Board, and Co-Chair of LES Education.  She has taught a variety of courses ranging from licensing, negotiation, IP & commercialization, general chemistry, chemistry and the arts, and forensic chemistry.

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Dell C. "D. C." Toedt III, Attorney, Professor of Practice | University of Huston Law Center

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 some 150lawyers 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.

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