Peter K. Sollins
Dr. Peter K. Sollins is a Registered Patent Attorney and an associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department. Dr. Sollins has prepared and prosecuted patent applications on medical devices, polymers, software and consumer products. Dr. Sollins has been involved in several reexamination proceedings before the U.S.P.T.O. Dr. Sollins has also been involved in patent litigation in U.S. District Court and also at the International Trade Commission in fields such as electronics, medical diagnostics and paper manufacturing.
Dr. Sollins obtained his Ph.D. from the Harvard University Department of Astronomy under the supervision of Dr. Paul T. P. Ho and Dr. Qizhou Zhang. Dr. Sollins studied the processes by which the most massive stars in the galaxy are formed, focusing on observations made with radio interferometers such as the Very Large Array in New Mexico, and the Sub-Millimeter Array on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. While a graduate student, Dr. Sollins also assisted in testing and systems integration during the construction of the Sub-Millimeter Array. Before graduate school, Dr. Sollins was a high school teacher in Wynnewood, PA.
Bars and Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Agency)
professional / civic involvement
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Member
- Boston Bar Association, Member
- Boston Patent Law Association, Member
- Massachusetts Bar Association, Member
publications
- Sollins, Peter K.; Zhang, Qizhou; Keto, Eric; and Ho, Paul T.P., “An Infalling Torus of Molecular Gas around the Ultracompact H II Region G28.20-0.05”, Astrophysical Journal, 631, 399 (2005)
- Sollins, Peter K.; and Ho, Paul T.P., “The Molecular Accretion Flow in G10.6-0.4”, Astrophysical Journal, 630, 978 (2005)
- Sollins, Peter K. et al., “Mapping the Outflow from G5.89-0.39 in SiO (J=5->4)”, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 616, 35 (2004)