The U.S. is working to block China from taking the top post of the United Nations intellectual property agency, in the Trump administration’s latest bid to convince countries of the threat posed by Beijing’s increasing assertiveness and technological prowess.

A resolution before the American Bar Association to address the access to justice crisis has been amended a second time in order to gain support from state bar leaders aligned against the proposal.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has withdrawn part of a widely-criticized rule requiring trademark owners and applicants to include a regularly checked email address on public forms.

Motorola Solutions Inc. won a $764.6 million verdict after a federal jury in Chicago said Chinese rival Hytera Communications Corp. stole the company’s critical trade secrets for two-way radio technology. Hytera pledged to appeal.

Sensata’s Schrader unit owes two closely held Swiss companies $31.2 million for infringing a patent for tire-pressure monitoring systems, or TPMS, a federal jury ruled.

The following are personnel changes and other news recently announced by prominent intellectual property law firms and other IP-related organizations:

A Federal Circuit rule on when competitors can challenge adverse patent rulings “creates an asymmetry that favors invalid patents” and needs to be corrected by the U.S. Supreme Court, General Electric Co. said in a petition for review.