diff --git a/lib/jsdoc/util/markdown.js b/lib/jsdoc/util/markdown.js
index 2708bbd8..37965ef8 100644
--- a/lib/jsdoc/util/markdown.js
+++ b/lib/jsdoc/util/markdown.js
@@ -77,6 +77,20 @@ function escapeCode(source) {
         .replace(/'/g, ''');
 }
 
+/**
+ * Unencode quotes that occur within {@ ... } after the markdown parser has turned them
+ * into html entities (unfortunately it isn't possible to escape them before parsing)
+ *
+ * @param {string} source - The source text to unencode.
+ * @return {string} The source text with html entity `"` converted back to standard quotes
+ */
+function unencodeQuotes(source) {
+    return source.replace(/\{@[^}\r\n]+\}/g, function (wholeMatch) {
+        return wholeMatch.replace(/"/g, '"');
+    });
+}
+
+
 /**
  * Retrieve a function that accepts a single parameter containing Markdown source. The function uses
  * the specified parser to transform the Markdown source to HTML, then returns the HTML as a string.
@@ -125,7 +139,9 @@ function getParseFunction(parserName, conf) {
             result = marked(source, { renderer: markedRenderer })
                 .replace(/\s+$/, '')
                 .replace(/'/g, "'");
+
             result = unescapeUrls(result);
+            result = unencodeQuotes(result);
 
             return result;
         };