Stephen Marshall

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Specialty / focus. Stephen A. Marshall is a Washington, DC–based patent trial lawyer whose practice centers on complex patent litigation and counseling in embedded systems and software, mobile devices and standards, IoT, and communications/networking protocols and standards. Firm and directory bios (Willkie, IAM Patent 1000, IPWatchdog) describe additional experience in semiconductors, telecommunications, computer networking, optical data storage, defense/electro-optical systems, robotics, and medical devices, with appearances concentrated in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the District of Delaware, the Federal Circuit, and Section 337 investigations at the ITC. The two tracked entries fit that profile — both defense-side matters in consumer electronics and video/streaming technology.

Side preference. The tracked data shows 0 plaintiff-side and 2 defendant-side appearances (both as counsel), and his publicly documented client base — Samsung, LG, Netflix, iRobot — is predominantly technology operating companies defending infringement claims. He is not an NPE/PAE plaintiff's counsel; the main counterweight is his ITC work for iRobot as complainant (lead/co-lead), which is an enforcement posture. Net: a defense-oriented litigator for large operating companies, with limited patent-owner-side ITC and PTAB work.

Firm context. He is currently a partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Departments at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington, DC, which he joined in January 2021 from Fish & Richardson, where he had been a principal. The tracked Fish & Richardson entry (DivX, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al.) is consistent with that 2021 transition. One caveat: the tracked "Scott Douglass & McConnico" appearance could not be corroborated. That Austin firm's public IP-litigation attorneys of record are Stephen Burbank and Stephen E. McConnico, and no Stephen Marshall appears on the firm's attorney roster — treat that entry as a probable name-confusion artifact rather than a verified affiliation.

Notable cases, PTAB/IPR, and credentials. The most prominent tracked matter is DivX, LLC v. Samsung Electronics (E.D. Tex. No. 2:21-cv-00187), part of a multi-forum video-codec/streaming campaign that resolved in a confidential global settlement in July 2021 ending parallel proceedings in the ITC (337-TA-1222), Delaware, Texas, Germany, and Brazil. Other verifiable matters include Bell Northern Research, LLC v. Samsung Electronics (E.D. Tex. No. 2:19-cv-00286) with parallel Samsung IPRs (IPR2020-00613, -00717, -00718, -00744), and iRobot's ITC action (337-TA-1057) and D. Mass. suit against Shenzhen Zhiyi/iLife. He does appear regularly in AIA proceedings, typically as back-up or pro hac vice counsel (e.g., Netflix v. GoTV Streaming, IPR2023-00757/758/759, where the Board granted his pro hac vice admission in December 2023). Bar admissions: Massachusetts (2006) and District of Columbia (2013), plus E.D./W.D. Tex., E.D. Wis., D. Mass., the First and Federal Circuits, and the Court of Federal Claims; J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, 2006. He is recognized in IAM Patent 1000 (2023, 2024).

Note: the tracked appearance list for this name is very sparse relative to the volume of matters described in published bios, so the case list above should be read as a partial snapshot; no settlement amounts or verdict figures were independently verified.