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Other Operating (Income) Expense, Net | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 01, 2012
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Other Operating (Income) Expense, Net | Other Operating (Income) Expense, Net Other operating (income) expense consisted of the following:
|  | Quarter Ended |  | Six Months Ended
|  | March 1, 2012 |  | March 3, 2011 |  | March 1, 2012 |  | March 3, 2011
(Gain) loss on disposition of property, plant and equipment |  | $ | 5 |  |  | $ | (16 | ) |  | $ | 6 |  |  | $ | (16 | )
(Gain) loss from changes in currency exchange rates |  | 2 |  |  | — |  |  | 13 |  |  | 7 |
Samsung patent cross-license agreement |  | — |  |  | (40 | ) |  | — |  |  | (240 | )
Other |  | 12 |  |  | (20 | ) |  | 6 |  |  | (18 | )
|  | $ | 19 |  |  | $ | (76 | ) |  | $ | 25 |  |  | $ | (267 | )
In the first quarter of 2011, we entered into a 10-year patent cross-license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. ("Samsung") under which we received a total of $275 million of cash. For the second quarter and first six months of 2011, other operating income included gains of $40 million and $240 million, respectively, for cash received from Samsung under the agreement. We received an additional $35 million from this agreement in the third quarter of 2011. The license is a life-of-patents license for existing patents and applications, and a 10-year term license for all other patents.

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