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Other Operating Expense, Net | 3 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2021
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract] |
Other Operating Expense, Net | Note 11—Other Operating Expense, Net The following table summarizes the other operating expense, net by business segment: Schedule of Other Operating Expense, Net
|  | Three Months Ended October 31, |
|  | 2021 |  |  | 2020 |
|  | (in thousands) |
Corporate—Straight Path Communications Inc. class action legal fees |  | $ | (978 | ) |  | $ | (321 | )
Corporate—Straight Path Communications Inc. class action insurance claims |  |  | 915 |  |  |  | 623 |
Traditional Communications—net2phone indemnification claim |  |  | (25 | ) |  |  | — |
Traditional Communications—Carrier Services settlement |  |  | — |  |  |  | (554 | )
Total other operating expense, net |  | $ | (88 | ) |  | $ | (252 | )
Straight Path Communications Inc. Class Action As discussed in Note 17, the Company (as well as other defendants) has been named in a pending putative class action on behalf of the stockholders of the Company’s former subsidiary, Straight Path Communications Inc. (“Straight Path”), and a derivative complaint. The Company incurred legal fees and recorded offsetting gains from insurance claims related to this action in the three months ended October 31, 2021 and 2020. Indemnification Claim Beginning in June 2019, as part of a commercial resolution, the Company indemnified a net2phone cable telephony customer related to patent infringement claims brought against the customer.

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