Licensed software users may observe, study, or test the functioning of the program to determine the ideas and principles which underlie its elements on condition that that person does not infringe the exclusive rights of the copyright owner.

Based on the 1980 Protection of Trading Interests Act, Judge Cockerill allowed World Programming to recover non-compensatory damages paid under the American judgement.

Additionally, the district court provided partial summary judgement granting the breach of contract claim.

The claims of copyright infringement of the SAS manuals, fraudulent inducement, and unfair deceptive trade practices were addressed in a jury trial in late 2015.

After a three-week trial that ended on October 9, 2015, a jury in federal court awarded SAS $79.1 million in damages, after trebling.

The jury ruled that WPL had engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices - specifically, that it had misrepresented its intentions in order to obtain the license to the software,[11] and violated the contract granted, which only allowed for non-commercial use - and that it had infringed on the copyright of its manual by copying portions of it into its own manual.