1.   Amgen has filed a patent infringement lawsuit aiming to protect its product.

2.   Copyright infringement lawsuits by the recording industry gave Napster more publicity, shoving the company into the sunlight and creating what insiders called an accidental empire.

3.   Faced with a threat of a trademark infringement lawsuit from Feld Entertainment, the parent of Ringling Brothers, PETA surrendered the domain to the circus.

4.   Feld Entertainment, owner of Ringling, responded with a threat of a trademark infringement lawsuit.

5.   Free-lance artist Thomas Nash of suburban Missouri City filed the copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court.

6.   In a separate action last week, premium wine producer Kendall-Jackson Winery of Santa Rosa filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Gallo.

7.   Investors fled Novellus after it reported yesterday that it lost a patent infringement lawsuit against Applied Materials.

8.   Meanwhile, NetZero is a defendant in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Juno.

9.   Napster Inc. in July lost a separate but similar copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America.

10.   Once the system is in place, the media conglomerate has agreed to drop its copyright infringement lawsuit against Napster and take an equity stake in the company.