The court stated a new legal standard for a "tying claim" and remanded the issue to the district court for reconsiderationof whether Microsoft should be found liable for "tying" its Internet Explorer to Windows.
Were the full Senate to approve the bill in its present form, the Genie-stuffers would be able to claim that the previous rejection has been supplanted by an endorsement, clearing the way for a hasty reconsiderationof the accord.