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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, Net (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2020
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Summary of Changes in Goodwill by Reportable Business Segment | Goodwill activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 is as follows (in millions):
|  | September 30, 2020
Segments | Net Book Value at December 31, 2019 |  |  |  | Impairment Charges |  | Foreign Exchange and Other |  | Gross Carrying Amount |  | Accumulated Impairment Charges |  | Net Book Value
Appliances and Cookware | $ | 212 |  |  |  |  | $ | (212) |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 744 |  |  | $ | (744) |  |  | $ | — |
Commercial Solutions | 747 |  |  |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 1,241 |  |  | (494) |  |  | 747 |
Home Solutions | 164 |  |  |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 2,392 |  |  | (2,228) |  |  | 164 |
Learning and Development | 2,586 |  |  |  |  | — |  |  | 26 |  |  | 3,458 |  |  | (846) |  |  | 2,612 |
Outdoor and Recreation | — |  |  |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 788 |  |  | (788) |  |  | — |
| $ | 3,709 |  |  |  |  | $ | (212) |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | 8,623 |  |  | $ | (5,100) |  |  | $ | 3,523 |
Schedule of Other Intangible Assets and Related Amortization Periods | Other intangible assets, net, are comprised of the following at the dates indicated (in millions):
| September 30, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019 |  |
| Gross Carrying Amount |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Net Book Value |  | Gross Carrying Amount |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Net Book Value |  | Amortization Periods (in years)
Trade names — indefinite life | $ | 2,315 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 2,315 |  |  | $ | 3,560 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 3,560 |  |  | N/A
Trade names — other | 158 |  |  | (55) |  |  | 103 |  |  | 169 |  |  | (50) |  |  | 119 |  |  | 2-15
Capitalized software | 620 |  |  | (475) |  |  | 145 |  |  | 587 |  |  | (435) |  |  | 152 |  |  | 3-12
Patents and intellectual property | 123 |  |  | (104) |  |  | 19 |  |  | 135 |  |  | (102) |  |  | 33 |  |  | 3-14
Customer relationships and distributor channels | 1,251 |  |  | (266) |  |  | 985 |  |  | 1,328 |  |  | (283) |  |  | 1,045 |  |  | 3-30
Other | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 109 |  |  | (102) |  |  | 7 |  |  | 3-5
| $ | 4,467 |  |  | $ | (900) |  |  | $ | 3,567 |  |  | $ | 5,888 |  |  | $ | (972) |  |  | $ | 4,916 |  |  |
Schedule of Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets by Segment | The impairment charges were allocated to the Company’s reporting segments as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2020 |  | 2019 (1) |  | 2020 |  | 2019 (1)
Impairment of indefinite-lived intangibles assets |  |  |  |
Appliances and Cookware | $ | — |  |  | $ | 607 |  |  | $ | 87 |  |  | $ | 607 |
Commercial Solutions | — |  |  | 152 |  |  | 320 |  |  | 152 |
Home Solutions | — |  |  | 152 |  |  | 290 |  |  | 152 |
Learning and Development | 2 |  |  | — |  |  | 80 |  |  | — |
Outdoor and Recreation | — |  |  | 65 |  |  | 482 |  |  | 65 |
| $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 976 |  |  | $ | 1,259 |  |  | $ | 976 |
(1)In the Appliances and Cookware segment, the impairment charge was recorded within the Appliances and Cookware reporting unit. In the Commercial Solutions segment, impairment charges of $130 million and $22 million were recorded in the Quickie and Mapa/Spontex businesses, respectively. In the Home Solutions segment, impairment charge of $152 million was recorded within the Home Fragrance reporting unit. In the Outdoor and Recreation segment, the impairment charge was recorded within Outdoor and Recreation reporting unit. The carrying value of certain Appliances and Cookware trade names exceeded their fair value primarily due to the announced tariffs on Chinese imports as well as a decline in sales volume due to a loss in market share for certain appliance categories driven by the success of newly launched competitive products. Both of these factors resulted in downward revisions to forecasted results. The carrying value of certain Home Solutions trade names exceeded their fair value primarily within the Home Fragrance reporting unit.

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