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Commitments and Contingencies | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 01, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Commitments and Contingencies | 24. Commitments and Contingencies Employment and Severance Agreements In July 2017, the Company entered into the First Amendment to that certain Amended and Restated Employment Agreement entered into between the Company and Mr. Kiani on November 4, 2015 (as amended, the Amended Employment Agreement). Pursuant to the terms of the Amended Employment Agreement, upon a “Qualifying Termination” (as defined in the Amended Employment Agreement), Mr. Kiani will be entitled to receive a cash severance benefit equal to two times the sum of his then-current base salary and the average annual bonus paid to Mr. Kiani during the immediately preceding three years, the full amount of the “Award Shares” (as defined in the Amended Employment Agreement) and the full amount of the “Cash Payment” (as defined in the Amended Employment Agreement). In addition, in the event of a “Change-in-Control” (as defined in the Amended Employment Agreement) prior to a Qualifying Termination, on each of the first and second anniversaries of the Change-in-Control, 50% of the Cash Payment and 50% of the Award Shares will vest, subject in each case to Mr. Kiani’s continuous employment through each such anniversary date; however, in the event of a Qualifying Termination or a termination of Mr. Kiani’s employment due to death or disability prior to either of such anniversaries, any unvested amount of the Cash Payment and all of the unvested Award Shares shall vest and be paid in full. Additionally, in the event of a Change-in-Control prior to a Qualifying Termination, Mr. Kiani’s stock options and any other equity awards will vest in accordance with their terms, but in no event later than in two equal installments on each of the one year and two year anniversaries of the Change-in- Control, subject in each case to Mr. Kiani’s continuous employment through each such anniversary date. On January 14, 2022, the Company entered into the Second Amendment to the Amended Employment Agreement (Second Amendment) with Mr. Kiani. The Second Amendment provides that the RSUs granted to Mr. Kiani pursuant to the Amended Employment Agreement will vest in full upon the termination of Mr. Kiani’s employment with the Company pursuant to Mr. Kiani’s death or disability. As of April 1, 2023, the expense related to the Award Shares and Cash Payment that would be recognized in the Company’s consolidated financial statements upon the occurrence of a Qualifying Termination under the Amended Employment Agreement, as amended by the Second Amendment, was approximately $664.3 million. In connection with the Board’s unanimous selection of H Michael Cohen as Lead Independent Director, Mr. Kiani has voluntarily irrevocably and permanently waived his right to treat the appointment of any lead independent director as “Good Reason” under his employment agreement with the Company, to terminate employment, and to receive contractual separation payments on this basis. As of April 1, 2023, the Company had severance plan participation agreements with five executive officers. The participation agreements (the Agreements) are governed by the terms and conditions of the Company’s 2007 Severance Protection Plan (the Severance Plan), which became effective on July 19, 2007 and which was amended effective December 31, 2008. Under each of the Agreements, the applicable executive officer may be entitled to receive certain salary, equity, medical and life insurance benefits if he is terminated by the Company without cause or if he terminates his employment for good reason under certain circumstances. Each executive officer is also required to give the Company six months’ advance notice of his resignation under certain circumstances. Cercacor Cross-Licensing Agreement Provisions The Company’s Cross-Licensing Agreement with Cercacor contains annual minimum aggregate royalty obligations for use of the rainbow® licensed technology. The current annual minimum royalty obligation is $5.0 million. Upon a change in control (as defined in the Cross-Licensing Agreement) of the Company or Cercacor: (i) all rights to the “Masimo” trademark will be assigned to Cercacor if the surviving or acquiring entity ceases to use “Masimo” as a company name and trademark; (ii) the option to license technology developed by Cercacor for use in blood glucose monitoring will be deemed automatically exercised and a $2.5 million license fee for this technology will become immediately payable to Cercacor; and (iii) the minimum aggregate annual royalties payable to Cercacor for carbon monoxide, methemoglobin, fractional arterial oxygen saturation, hemoglobin and/or glucose measurements will increase to $15.0 million per year until the exclusivity period of the agreement ends, plus up to $2.0 million for each additional vital sign measurement with no maximum ceiling for non-vital sign measurements. Purchase Commitments Pursuant to contractual obligations with vendors, the Company had $394.9 million of purchase commitments as of April 1, 2023 that are expected to be purchased within one year. These purchase commitments have been made for certain inventory items in order to secure sufficient levels of those items, other critical inventory and manufacturing supplies, and to achieve better pricing. Other Contractual Commitments In the normal course of business, the Company may provide bank guarantees to support government hospital tenders in certain foreign jurisdictions. As of April 1, 2023, the Company had approximately $3.3 million in outstanding unsecured bank guarantees. In certain circumstances, the Company also provides limited indemnification within its various customer contracts whereby the Company indemnifies the parties to whom it sells its products with respect to potential infringement of intellectual property, and against bodily injury caused by a defective Company product. It is not possible to predict the maximum potential amount of future payments under these or similar agreements, due to the conditional nature of the Company’s obligations and the unique facts and circumstances involved. As of April 1, 2023, the Company had not incurred any significant costs related to contractual indemnification of its customers. Concentrations of Risk The Company is exposed to credit loss for the amount of its cash deposits with financial institutions in excess of federally insured limits. The Company invests a portion of its excess cash with major financial institutions. As of April 1, 2023, the Company had $174.1 million of bank balances, of which $7.9 million was covered by either the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation limit or foreign countries’ deposit insurance organizations. The Company’s ability to sell its healthcare products to U.S. hospitals depends in part on its relationships with GPOs. Many existing and potential healthcare customers for the Company’s products become members of GPOs. GPOs negotiate pricing arrangements and contracts, sometimes exclusively, with medical supply manufacturers and distributors, and these negotiated prices are made available to a GPO’s affiliated hospitals and other members. During the three months ended April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022, revenue from the sale of the Company’s healthcare products to customers that are members of GPOs approximated 51.0% and 55.1% of healthcare revenue, respectively. For the three months ended April 1, 2023, the Company had sales through one just-in-time healthcare distributor that represented 8.9% of revenue. For the three months ended April 2, 2022, the Company had sales through two just-in-time healthcare distributors that represented 13.5% and 8.2% of consolidated revenue, respectively. During the three months ended April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022, there were no revenue concentrations for the Company’s non-healthcare business. As of April 1, 2023 and December 31, 2022, one healthcare customer represented 10.6% and 9.1%, respectively, of the Company’s consolidated accounts receivable balance. The receivable balance related to such healthcare customer is fully secured by a letter of credit. As of April 1, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were no customer concentrations risks associated with the Company’s non-healthcare business. Litigation On January 9, 2020, the Company filed a complaint against Apple Inc. (Apple) in the United States District Court for the Central District of California for infringement of a number of patents, for trade secret misappropriation, and for ownership and correction of inventorship of a number of Apple patents listing one of its former employees as an inventor. The Company is seeking damages, injunctive relief, and declaratory judgment regarding ownership of the Apple patents. Apple filed petitions for Inter Partes review (IPR) of the asserted patents in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The PTO instituted IPR of the asserted patents. On October 13, 2020, the District Court stayed the patent infringement claims pending completion of the IPR proceedings. In the IPR proceedings, one or more of the challenged claims of three of the asserted patents were found valid. The challenged claims of nine of the asserted patents were found invalid. The Company and Apple filed notices of appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit seeking review of the IPR decisions on all asserted patents. The Company filed an opening brief in one consolidated appeal for five asserted patents and the parties now await scheduling of oral arguments. The Company filed an opening brief in another consolidated appeal for four asserted patents on December 12, 2022, and Apple filed a reply brief in that other consolidated appeal on February 21, 2023. From April 4, 2023 through May 1, 2023, the District Court held a jury trial on the trade secret, ownership, and inventorship claims. The District Court granted Apple’s motion for judgment as a matter of law on certain trade secrets and denied the remainder of Apple’s motion. On May 1, 2023, the District Court declared a mistrial because the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. The District Court has not yet scheduled a new trial. On June 30, 2021, the Company filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Apple for infringement of a number of other patents. The Company filed an amended complaint on July 12, 2021. On August 13, 2021, the ITC issued a Notice of Institution of Investigation on the asserted patents. From June 6, 2022 to June 10, 2022, the ITC conducted an evidentiary hearing. The current target date for completion of the ITC investigation is May 10, 2023. In July and August 2022, Apple filed petitions for IPR of the asserted patents in the PTO. On January 10, 2023, a United States Administrative Law Judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that Apple violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, by importing and selling within the United States certain Apple Watches with light-based pulse oximetry functionality and components, which infringe one of the Company’s pulse oximeter patents. On January 24, 2023, the United States Administrative Law Judge further recommended that the ITC issue an exclusion order and a cease and desist order on certain Apple Watches. The ITC will now consider whether to implement a ban on imports of certain Apple Watches. On January 30, 2023, the PTO denied institution of IPR proceedings for the Company’s pulse oximeter patent that the United States Administrative Law Judge ruled was infringed. With respect to the other patents asserted at the ITC, the PTO denied institution of IPR proceedings for two patents and instituted IPR proceedings for two patents in January and February 2023. The instituted IPR proceedings on the two patents are pending. On October 20, 2022, Apple filed two complaints against the Company in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that the Masimo W1™ watch infringes six utility and four design patents. Apple is seeking damages and injunctive relief. On December 12, 2022, the Company counterclaimed for monopolization, attempted monopolization, false advertising (and related causes of action) and infringement of ten patents. The Company is seeking damages and injunctive relief. On May 5, 2023, the Court ordered that the two cases be coordinated through the pre-trial stage. The Court will hold a case management conference in January 2024 to address the scope of claims and counterclaims for trial and set a trial date. The Company intends to vigorously pursue all of its claims against Apple and believes the Company has good and substantial defenses to Apple’s claims, but there is no guarantee that the Company will be successful in these efforts. On October 21, 2022, a complaint was filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery against the Company and members of the Company’s Board (Director Defendants) by Politan Capital Management LP and Politan Capital NY LLC (Activist Plaintiffs). The complaint sought to (i) declare certain amendments to the Company’s bylaws that became effective on September 9, 2022 (Bylaw Amendments) unenforceable, (ii) find that the Director Defendants breached their fiduciary duties by approving and implementing the Bylaw Amendments and the shareholder rights plan adopted by the Company on September 9, 2022, and refusing to invalidate certain change of control provisions in the Company’s employment agreement with Joe Kiani, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), (iii) invalidate certain change of control provisions in Mr. Kiani’s employment agreement, (iv) permanently enjoin the Company and its Board from taking any actions to prevent the Activist Plaintiffs from exercising their rights in accordance with the Company’s prior bylaws to nominate directors, and (v) award the Activist Plaintiffs their fees, costs and expenses in connection with the action covered by the complaint. On February 5, 2023, the Board approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws (the Amended and Restated Bylaws) which reverted to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation, dated as of October 24, 2019 (included as Exhibit 3.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K, filed by the Corporation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2019), except that the Amended and Restated Bylaws continued to provide that the period for stockholders to give notice of their intention to nominate directors to stand for election and to submit stockholder proposals for consideration at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders would begin on March 24, 2023 and remain open for one month (later extended to May 1, 2023). In addition, effective February 8, 2023, Mr. Kiani agreed that the valid election to the Board at the 2023 Annual Meeting of any two individuals nominated by the Company stockholders in lieu of two of the Company’s current Board members will not be deemed to constitute a “Change in Control” for purposes of Section 9(iii) of his employment agreement. On February 8, 2023, the Court informed the parties that the Amended and Restated Bylaws mooted the Bylaw Amendments dispute and continued trial on the change in control provisions to September 12, 2023. On May 1, 2023, Politan filed a motion for an interim fee award of attorneys’ fees and expenses. On March 3, 2023, Politan filed a motion for leave to file a second amended and supplemented verified complaint (the Second Amended Complaint), which the Court granted on March 15, 2023. The Second Amended Complaint added the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) as a co-plaintiff and added several former members of the Company’s Board as additional co-defendants. The Second Amended Complaint seeks to invalidate Mr. Kiani’s employment agreement and challenges Mr. Kiani’s February 8, 2023 waiver. The Second Amended Complaint seeks declaratory and monetary relief and attorneys’ fees and costs. The Company believes that it and the Director Defendants have good and substantial defenses to the claims in the Second Amended Complaint, but there is no guarantee that the Company and the Director Defendants will be successful in these efforts. The Company is unable to determine whether any loss ultimately will occur or to estimate the range of such loss; therefore, no amount of loss has been accrued by the Company in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements. From time to time, the Company may be involved in other litigation and investigations relating to claims and matters arising out of its operations in the normal course of business. The Company believes that it currently is not a party to any other legal proceedings which, individually or in the aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

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