2.2.0.7 false Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters 0213 - Disclosure - Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters true false false false 1 USD false false USD Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 0 USDEPS Divide http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217 USD iso4217 http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 Shares Standard http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance shares xbrli 0 $ 2 Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters [Abstract] 0 lsi_CommitmentsContingenciesAndLegalMattersAbstract lsi false na duration Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters. false false false false false true false false false false false false 1 false false false false 0 0 false false false xbrli:stringItemType string Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters. false 3 Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters 1 us-gaap_CommitmentsAndContingenciesDisclosureTextBlock us-gaap true na duration No definition available. false false false false false false false false false false false verboselabel false 1 false false false false 0 0   <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Note 13 — Commitments, Contingencies and Legal Matters</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><b>Purchase Commitments</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The Company maintains purchase commitments with certain suppliers, primarily for raw materials and manufacturing services and for some non-production items. Purchase commitments for inventory materials are generally restricted to a forecasted time horizon as mutually agreed upon between the parties. This forecasted time horizon can vary for different suppliers. As of July 4, 2010, the total purchase commitments were $480.5 million, which are due through 2013. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The Company has a take-or-pay agreement with SMP under which it has agreed to purchase 51% of the managed wafer capacity from SMP’s integrated circuit manufacturing facility, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES agreed to purchase the remaining 49% of the managed wafer capacity. SMP determines its managed wafer capacity each year based on forecasts provided by the Company and GLOBALFOUNDRIES. If the Company fails to purchase its required commitments, it will be required to pay SMP for the fixed costs associated with the unpurchased wafers. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is similarly obligated with respect to the wafers allotted to it. The agreement may be terminated by either party upon two years written notice. The agreement may also be terminated for material breach, bankruptcy or insolvency. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Guarantees</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     <b><i>Product Warranties</i></b><b>:</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The Company warrants finished goods against defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service for periods of one to five years. A liability for estimated future costs under product warranties is recorded when products are shipped. </div>   </div>  <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The following table sets forth a summary of changes in product warranties: </div> <div align="center"> <table style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">  <tr valign="bottom"> <td width="88%"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="1%"> </td> <td width="5%"> </td> <td width="1%"> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom"> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="2"><b>Six Months Ended</b></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom"> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><b>July 4, 2010</b></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom"> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="2"><b>(In thousands)</b></td> <td> </td> </tr>   <tr valign="bottom" style="background: #cceeff"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Balance as of December 31, 2009 </div></td> <td> </td> <td align="left">$</td> <td align="right">13,831</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Accruals for warranties issued during the period </div></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">7,842</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom" style="background: #cceeff"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Accruals related to pre-existing warranties (including changes in estimates) </div></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">355</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Settlements made during the period (in cash or in kind) </div></td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td> <td align="right">(7,172</td> <td nowrap="nowrap">)</td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 1px"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">  </div></td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom" style="background: #cceeff"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Balance as of July 4, 2010 </div></td> <td> </td> <td align="left">$</td> <td align="right">14,856</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 1px"> <td> <div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">  </div></td> <td> </td> <td nowrap="nowrap" colspan="2" align="right" style="border-top: 3px double #000000"> </td> <td> </td> </tr>  </table> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     <b><i>Standby Letters of Credit:</i></b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     As of July 4, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the Company had outstanding obligations relating to standby letters of credit of $4.2 million and $4.3 million, respectively. Standby letters of credit are financial guarantees provided by third parties for leases, customs and certain self-insured risks. If the guarantees are called, the Company must reimburse the provider of the guarantee. The fair value of the letters of credit approximates the contract amount, and they generally have one-year terms. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Uncertain Tax Positions</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     As of July 4, 2010, the Company had $150.2 million of unrecognized tax benefits, of which the Company expects to pay $2.0 million within one year. Accordingly, this amount has been recorded in other current liabilities. For the remaining balance, the Company is unable to make a reasonably reliable estimate as to when cash settlement with a taxing authority may occur. It is reasonably possible that the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits will increase or decrease in the next 12 months. Such changes could occur based on the normal expiration of statutes of limitations or the possible conclusion of ongoing tax audits in various jurisdictions around the world. If those events occur within the next 12 months, the Company estimates that, in addition to the $2.0 million discussed above, unrecognized tax benefits, plus accrued interest and penalties, could decrease by an amount of up to $12.0 million. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Indemnifications</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The Company is a party to a variety of agreements pursuant to which it may be obligated to indemnify the other party. Typically, these obligations arise in connection with contracts and license agreements or the sale of assets, under which the Company customarily agrees to hold the other party harmless against losses arising from a breach of warranties, representations and covenants related to such matters as title to assets sold, validity of certain intellectual property rights, non-infringement of third-party rights, and certain income tax-related matters. In each of these circumstances, payment by the Company is typically subject to the other party making a claim to and cooperating with the Company pursuant to the procedures specified in the particular contract. This usually allows the Company to challenge the other party’s claims or, in case of breach of intellectual property representations or covenants, to control the defense or settlement of any third-party claims brought against the other party. Further, the Company’s obligations under these agreements may be limited in terms of activity (typically to replace or correct the products or terminate the agreement with a refund to the other party), duration and/or amounts. In some instances, the Company may have recourse against third parties covering certain payments made by the Company. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Legal Matters</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     On December 6, 2006, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Inc. (“Sony Ericsson”) filed a lawsuit against Agere in Wake County Superior Court in North Carolina, alleging unfair and deceptive trade practices, fraud and negligent misrepresentation in connection with Agere’s engagement with Sony Ericsson to develop a wireless data card for personal computers. The complaint claims an unspecified amount of damages and seeks compensatory damages, treble damages and attorneys’ fees. On February 13, 2007, Agere filed a motion to dismiss for improper venue. On August 27, 2007, the court granted Agere’s motion to dismiss for improper venue. Sony Ericsson appealed that ruling. On March 3, 2009, the North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s ruling. On October 22, 2007, Sony Ericsson filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County against LSI, raising substantially the same allegations and seeking substantially the same relief as the North Carolina proceeding. In January 2010, Sony Ericsson amended its complaint by adding claims for fraudulent concealment and gross negligence. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     On March 23, 2007, CIF Licensing, LLC, d/b/a GE Licensing (“GE”) filed a lawsuit against Agere in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, asserting that Agere products infringe patents in a portfolio of patents GE acquired from Motorola. </div>   </div>  <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">GE has asserted that four of the patents cover inventions relating to modems. GE is seeking monetary damages. Agere believes it has a number of defenses to the infringement claims in this action, including laches, exhaustion and its belief that it has a license to the patents. The court postponed hearing motions based on these defenses until after the trial, and did not allow Agere to present evidence on these defenses at trial. On February 17, 2009, the jury in this case returned a verdict finding that three of the four patents were invalid and that Agere products infringed the one patent found to be valid and awarding GE $7.6 million for infringement of that patent. The jury also found Agere’s infringement was willful, which means that the judge could increase the amount of damages up to three times its original amount. The court has not scheduled hearings on Agere’s post-trial motions related to its defenses. One of these motions seeks to have a mis-trial declared based on Agere’s belief that GE withheld evidence in discovery, which affected Agere’s ability to present evidence at trial. The court has appointed a special master to investigate this matter. If the jury’s verdict is entered by the court, Agere would also expect to be required to pay interest from the date of infringing sales. If the verdict is entered, LSI intends to appeal the matter. On February 17, 2010, the court issued an order granting GE’s summary judgment motions seeking to bar Agere’s defenses of laches, exhaustion, and license and denying Agere’s summary judgment motions concerning the same defenses. On July 30, 2010, the court held that one of the patents found invalid by the jury was valid. The court also held that the February 17, 2010 order was not inconsistent with its previous ruling that Agere would be permitted to renew its laches, licensing, and exhaustion defenses, and that Agere has not been precluded from asserting them post-trial. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     In April 2008, LSI filed an action with the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) seeking from the United States the exclusion of products produced by 23 companies. Qimonda AG, one of these companies, filed a lawsuit against LSI in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Richmond Division) on November 12, 2008, alleging that LSI’s products infringe seven of Qimonda’s patents. Qimonda is seeking monetary damages, treble damages and costs, expenses and attorneys’ fees due to alleged willfulness, interest, and temporary and permanent injunctive relief for all the patents in the suit. On November 20, 2008, Qimonda filed an ITC action against LSI and Seagate alleging that multiple LSI products infringe the same seven patents, and seeking an injunction against sales of infringing products. Subsequently, Qimonda dropped from the ITC proceeding its claims relating to three of the patents. A hearing on Qimonda’s ITC claims was held before an administrative law judge in June 2009. On October 14, 2009, the judge issued an initial determination, in which he found that a domestic industry did not exist in the U.S. for any of the four patents asserted by Qimonda. The judge also found that three of the four patents were not infringed and that the one patent found to be infringed was invalid. On January 29, 2010, the ITC issued a notice terminating the investigation against LSI and Seagate with a finding of no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Based on this notice, an injunction from the ITC is not available to Qimonda at this time. On March 29, 2010, Qimonda filed a notice of appeal with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appealing rulings related to two of the four asserted patents. Qimonda has stated that insolvency proceedings for it opened on April 1, 2009. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     In addition to the foregoing, the Company and its subsidiaries are parties to other litigation matters and claims in the normal course of business. The Company does not believe, based on currently available facts and circumstances, that the final outcome of these other matters, taken individually or as a whole, will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s results of operations or financial position. However, the pending unsettled lawsuits may involve complex questions of fact and law and may require the expenditure of significant funds and the diversion of other resources to defend. From time to time, the Company may enter into confidential discussions regarding the potential settlement of such lawsuits. However, there can be no assurance that any such discussions will occur or will result in a settlement. Moreover, the settlement of any pending litigation could require the Company to incur substantial costs and, in the case of the settlement of any intellectual property proceeding against the Company, may require the Company to obtain a license to a third-party’s intellectual property that could require royalty payments in the future and the Company to grant a license to certain of its intellectual property to a third party under a cross-license agreement. The results of litigation are inherently uncertain, and material adverse outcomes are possible. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The Company believes the amounts provided in its financial statements, which are not material, are adequate in light of the probable and estimable liabilities. However, because such matters are subject to many uncertainties, the ultimate outcomes are not predictable and there can be no assurances that the actual amounts required to satisfy alleged liabilities from the matters described above will not exceed the amounts reflected in the Company’s financial statements or will not have a material adverse effect on its results of operations, financial position or cash flows. </div> </div>  <!-- Begin Block Tagged Note false false false us-types:textBlockItemType textblock Includes disclosure of commitments and contingencies. 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