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Commitments and Contingencies | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2015
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Commitments and Contingencies | Note 8. Commitments and Contingencies Letters of Credit As of April 30, 2015 and January 31, 2015, we had letters of credit in the amount of $27.0 million in connection with our facility leases. These letters of credit mature at various dates through December 1, 2018. As of April 30, 2015 and January 31, 2015, certain letters of credit are collateralized by certificates of deposit held by us in the amount of $27.0 million and $2.0 million, respectively. Refer to Note 9 for additional details. Leases We have entered into various non-cancellable operating lease agreements for certain of our offices and datacenters with lease periods expiring primarily between fiscal years 2016 and 2029. Certain of these arrangements have free or escalating rent payment provisions and optional renewal clauses. We are also committed to pay a portion of the actual operating expenses under certain of these lease agreements. These operating expenses are not included in the table below. We also entered into various capital lease arrangements to obtain servers for our operations. These agreements are typically for three years. The leases are secured by the underlying leased servers. As of April 30, 2015, future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable capital and operating leases are as follows (in thousands):
Years ending January 31: |  | Capital Leases |  |  | Operating Leases |
Remainder of 2016 |  | $ | 951 |  |  | $ | 4,142 |
2017 |  |  | 1,267 |  |  |  | 12,191 |
2018 |  |  | 1,190 |  |  |  | 17,857 |
2019 |  |  | 66 |  |  |  | 19,478 |
2020 |  |  | — |  |  |  | 22,172 |
Thereafter |  |  | — |  |  |  | 190,660 |
Total minimum lease payments |  | $ | 3,474 |  |  | $ | 266,500 |
Less: amount representing interest |  |  | (163 | ) |  |  |  |
Present value of minimum lease payments |  | $ | 3,311 |  |  |  |  |
In March and April 2015, we signed subleases for three floors of our new headquarters. The 18 and 36-month subleases expire in fiscal 2018 and 2019, and non-cancellable sublease proceeds of $12.6 million are included in the table above. In addition, because our subtenants will occupy the subleased portions of our new headquarters prior to the related lease commencement date, we will incur contingent rent payments of $5.5 million, which are also included in the table above. We recognize rent expense under our operating leases on a straight-line basis. Rent expense totaled $3.7 million and $1.4 million, net of sublease income of $246,000 and $437,000 for the three months ended April 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively. We establish assets and liabilities for the present value of estimated future costs to return certain of our leased facilities to their original condition. Such assets are depreciated over the lease period into operating expense, and the recorded liabilities are accreted to the future value of the estimated restoration costs. As of April 30, 2015 and January 31, 2015, we had such asset retirement obligations in the amount of $138,000 and $135,000, respectively, which are included in other noncurrent liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets. Purchase Obligations As of April 30, 2015, future payments under non-cancellable contractual purchases, which relate primarily to datacenter operations and marketing activities, are as follows (in thousands):
Years ending January 31: |  |  |  |
Remainder of 2016 |  | $ | 14,922 |
2017 |  |  | 11,244 |
2018 |  |  | 3,083 |
|  | $ | 29,249 |
Legal Matters On June 5, 2013, Open Text S.A. (Open Text) filed a lawsuit against us in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, alleging that our core cloud software and Box Edit application infringe 12 patents of Open Text. Open Text sought preliminary and permanent injunctions against infringement, treble damages, and attorneys’ fees. This case was subsequently transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On September 13, 2013, Open Text filed a motion for preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin us from providing our Box Edit feature to companies with more than 100 users. On April 9, 2014, the California court denied Open Text’s motion for preliminary injunction, finding that (1) Open Text failed to meet its burden to show irreparable harm, (2) Open Text failed to show a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of its case, and (3) we have raised a substantial question as to the validity of the patents asserted during the preliminary injunction proceedings. On September 19, 2014, in a related action, Open Text S.A. v. Alfresco Software Ltd., et al., Case No. 13-cv-04843-JD, the Court granted the Alfresco Defendants’ motion to dismiss with prejudice the asserted claims of the Dialog Patents, finding the asserted claims of the Dialog Patents patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. On January 20, 2015, the Court entered an Order granting our motion for judgment on the pleadings as to the asserted patent claims of the Groupware Patents. The Court found that the asserted patent claims of the Groupware Patents are invalid because they claim non-patentable subject matter. As a result of the Court’s January 20, 2015 order and other pretrial orders, the lawsuit was narrowed to four total claims across the three remaining File Synchronization Patents accusing the Company’s Box Edit feature and Box Android application. Trial commenced on February 2, 2015. On February 13, 2015, the jury returned a verdict, finding the asserted claims of the File Synchronization patents infringed and were not invalid. The jury awarded damages in favor of Open Text in a lump sum and fully paid-up royalty in the amount of $4.9 million. The Court found no willful infringement of the asserted claims and foreclosed Open Text’s request for a permanent injunction since the jury returned a lump-sum award. On February 19, 2015, Open Text filed a notice of appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from the Court’s Order granting our motion for judgment of invalidity of the Groupware Patents. On March 9, 2015, Open Text filed a first amended notice of appeal from additional orders by the Court. While we intend to continue to defend the lawsuit vigorously and continue to believe we have valid defense to Open Text’s claims, we considered the issuance of the verdict a recognized subsequent event that provided additional evidence about conditions that existed as of January 31, 2015. Accordingly, we accrued a liability in the amount of $4.9 million for the settlement payment as of January 31, 2015, and recorded an expense in the amount of $3.9 million for the year ended January 31, 2015, in relation to the portion of the settlement amount attributable to prior periods. The portion of the settlement amount attributable to future periods is recorded as an asset as of January 31, 2015. This asset is being amortized over an estimated useful life of 14 months, and the amortization expense was $186,000 for the three months ended April 30, 2015. In addition to the litigation discussed above, from time to time, we are a party to litigation and subject to claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. We investigate these claims as they arise, and accrue estimates for resolution of litigation and other contingencies when losses are probable and estimable. Although the results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, we believe there was not at least a reasonable possibility that we had incurred a material loss with respect to such loss contingencies as of April 30, 2015 for which a reserve was not already established. Indemnification We include service level commitments to our customers warranting certain levels of uptime reliability and performance and permitting those customers to receive credits in the event that we fail to meet those levels. In addition, our customer contracts often include (i) specific obligations that we maintain the availability of the customer’s data through our service and that we secure customer content against unauthorized access or loss, and (ii) indemnity provisions whereby we indemnify our customers for third-party claims asserted against them that result from our failure to maintain the availability of their content or securing the same from unauthorized access or loss. To date, we have not incurred any material costs as a result of such commitments. Our arrangements generally include certain provisions for indemnifying customers against liabilities if our products or services infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount under these indemnification obligations due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement. To date, we have not incurred any material costs as a result of such obligations and have not accrued any liabilities related to such obligations in the consolidated financial statements. In addition, we indemnify our officers, directors and certain key employees while they are serving in good faith in their respective capacities. To date, there have been no claims under any indemnification provisions.

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