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Other Operating (Losses) Gains, Net | 12 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2018
Other Operating (Losses) Gains, Net [Abstract] |
Other Operating (Losses) Gains, Net | Note 10—Other Operating (Losses) Gains, Net The following table summarizes the other operating (losses) gains, net by business segment:
Year ended July 31 (in thousands) |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Corporate —losses related to Straight Path Communications Inc. |  | $ | (1,655 | ) |  | $ | (10,436 | ) |  | $ | — |
Corporate—(losses) gain related to other legal matters |  |  | (628 | ) |  |  | 24 |  |  |  | — |
net2phone-UCaaS—other |  |  | (115 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Telecom & Payment Services— loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (326 | )
All Other—gain on sale of interest in Fabrix Systems, Ltd |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,086 |
TOTAL |  | $ | (2,398 | ) |  | $ | (10,412 | ) |  | $ | 760 |
Straight Path Communications Inc. Class Action On July 31, 2013, the Company completed a pro rata distribution of the common stock of the Company’s subsidiary Straight Path Communications Inc. (“Straight Path”) to the Company’s stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 25, 2013 (the “Straight Path Spin-Off”). In fiscal 2018, we incurred legal fees of $1.7 million related to the Straight Path stockholders’ putative class action and derivative complaint (see Note 19). Straight Path Communications Inc. Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release The Company entered into various agreements with Straight Path prior to the Straight Path Spin-Off including a Separation and Distribution Agreement to affect the separation and provide a framework for the Company’s relationship with Straight Path after the spin-off. On September 20, 2016, the Company received a letter of inquiry from the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) requesting certain information and materials related to an investigation of potential violations by Straight Path Spectrum LLC (formerly a subsidiary of the Company and currently a subsidiary of Straight Path) in connection with licenses to operate on the 28 GHz and 39 GHz bands of the Fixed Microwave Services. The Company has cooperated with the FCC in this matter and has responded to the letter of inquiry. If the FCC were to pursue separate action against the Company, the FCC could seek to fine or impose regulatory penalties or civil liability on the Company related to activities during the period of ownership by the Company. The Separation and Distribution Agreement provides for the Company and Straight Path to indemnify each other for certain liabilities. The Company and Straight Path each communicated that it was entitled to indemnification from the other in connection with the inquiry described above and related matters. On October 24, 2017, the Company, Straight Path, Straight Path IP Group, Inc. (“SPIP”) and PR-SP IP Holdings LLC (“PR-SP”), an entity owned by Howard Jonas, entered into a Settlement Agreement and Release that provides for, among other things, the settlement and mutual release of potential liabilities and claims that may exist or arise under the Separation and Distribution Agreement between the Company and Straight Path. In exchange for the mutual release, in October 2017, the Company paid Straight Path an aggregate of $16 million in cash, Straight Path transferred to the Company its majority ownership interest in Straight Path IP Group Holding, Inc. (“New SPIP”), which holds the equity of SPIP, the entity that holds intellectual property primarily related to communications over computer networks, subject to the right to receive 22% of the net proceeds, if any, received by SPIP from licenses, settlements, awards or judgments involving any of the patent rights and certain transfers of the patents or related rights, that will be retained by Straight Path’s stockholders (such equity interest, subject to the retained interest right, the “IP Interest”), and the Company undertook certain funding and other obligations related to SPIP. The Settlement Agreement and Release allocates (i) $10 million of the payment and the retained interest right to the settlement of claims and the mutual release and (ii) $6 million to the transfer of the IP Interest. In fiscal 2017, the Company recorded a liability of $10.0 million related to this settlement and mutual release. In addition, in fiscal 2017, the Company incurred legal fees of $0.9 million related to the FCC investigation and the settlement and mutual release, and the Company received insurance proceeds related to the FCC investigation of $0.5 million. On October 24, 2017, the Company sold its entire majority interests in New SPIP to PR-SP in exchange for $6 million and the assumption by PR-SP of the funding and other obligations undertaken by the Company. Sale of Interest in Fabrix Systems Ltd. On October 8, 2014, the Company completed the sale of its interest in Fabrix Systems Ltd. (“Fabrix”) to Telefonaktiebolget LM Ericsson (publ). In fiscal 2016, the Company recorded gain on the sale of its interest in Fabrix of $1.1 million, which represented adjustments to the Company’s share of Fabrix’ working capital and estimated transaction costs.

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