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Jury Awards $15M in Book Trial

ST. LOUIS—A federal jury has ordered three defendants to pay $15 million for patent infringement to the company that created the concept. According to the Associated Press, Lightning Source, of La Vergne, TN, and its parent, Nashville, TN-based Ingram Industries, along with Amazon.com of Seattle, will appeal the judgment in favor of On Demand Machine Corp., whose founder, the late Harvey Ross, won a patent for on- demand books printed in minutes. A lawyer for On Demand Machine said that consumers who've ordered such books online may be infringing on the patent, as well.