Biography
A skilled litigator and transactional attorney, Marshall serves as a trusted adviser to clients in the United States and abroad on a variety of intellectual property and construction matters.
Marshall often represents construction contractors, helping them promptly resolve claims for equitable adjustment and challenge unjust terminations. He also represents owners in construction defect claims, delay claims and productivity claims.
Marshall's intellectual property practice includes handling disputes before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Patent Trials and Appeals Board and various U.S. District Courts, as well as arbitration panels and dispute resolution boards.
After receiving his engineering degrees in college, Marshall worked as a project engineer for a large general contractor. This construction industry experience provides him with a deep technical knowledge of best practices and building codes and standards. He has firsthand experience with productivity tracking, inspections and critical path schedule management with Primavera P6.
A former LEED Accredited Professional, Marshall is passionate about sustainable engineering design and greening initiatives. He also is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Marshall is a former Patent Agent who has worked for more than 10 years handling patent portfolios and preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and internationally. He is skilled with examiner interviews, ex parte patent appeals, broadening exams, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications, and strategic patent portfolio counseling.
Marshall's experience extends to medical devices, automotive technologies, heavy construction technologies, construction means and methods, drilling and mining technologies, clean energy technologies such as solar and wind farms, and the intersection between software-controlled and mechanically implemented machinery and sub-systems.
Before Fox Rothschild
Prior to joining Fox, Marshall was a patent agent at an internationally recognized intellectual property law firm in Washington, DC. He also served as a legal intern to Senior Judge Edward Damich of the Court of Federal Claims, where he assisted in reviewing the merits of contractors' technical claims for equitable adjustment.
Before pursuing a career in law, Marshall was a project engineer for a construction firm in Washington, DC. He assisted with the management of the project schedule, productivity tracking and quality control measures for a complex, fast track project that is now one of the Smithsonian’s most visited museums.
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Education
- George Washington University Law School (J.D., Order of the Coif, 2018)
- George Washington Scholar (Top 5%)
- Law Review
- Vanderbilt University (Master of Engineering, 2012)
- Civil & Environmental Engineering with a concentration in Construction Management
- Vanderbilt University (Bachelor of Engineering, 2010)
- Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Chi Epsilon National Engineering Honor Society

