Litigation, Commitments and Contingencies	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]
Litigation, Commitments and Contingencies	Litigation, Commitments and Contingencies The Company is a party, as either a sole or joint defendant or plaintiff, in various lawsuits, claims and other legal matters that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business (including litigation relating to our Legacy Businesses and discontinued operations). All such matters involve uncertainty and accordingly, outcomes that cannot be predicted with assurance. As of September 30, 2018, we are unable to estimate with certainty the ultimate aggregate amount of monetary liability or financial impact that we may incur with respect to these matters. It is reasonably possible that the ultimate resolution of these matters, individually or in the aggregate, could materially affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Intellectual Property Litigation The Company is subject to allegations of patent infringement by our competitors as well as non-practicing entities (“NPEs”) - sometimes referred to as “patent trolls” - who may seek monetary settlements from us, our competitors, suppliers and resellers. The nature of such litigation is complex and unpredictable and, consequently, as of September 30, 2018, the Company is not able to reasonably estimate with precision the amount of any monetary liability or financial impact that may be incurred with respect to these matters. As of September 30, 2018, except as set forth below with respect to the IOENGINE settlement, given the exits from the Legacy Businesses, the Company believes that the ultimate resolution of these matters in the aggregate will not materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. On December 31, 2014, IOENGINE, an NPE, filed suit in the District Court for the District of Delaware alleging infringement of United States Patent No. 8,539,047 by certain products we formerly sold under the IronKey brand. On February 17, 2017, following a trial, the jury returned a verdict against us in the patent infringement case brought by IOENGINE against the Company in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The jury awarded the IOENGINE $11.0 million in damages. As previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K we filed with the SEC on September 28, 2017, we entered into a settlement agreement with IOENGINE on September 28, 2017 resolving all claims relating to the IOENGINE lawsuit. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, (i) we paid IOENGINE $3.75 million in cash on October 3, 2017, (ii) issued to IOENGINE a promissory note (the “IOENGINE Note”) in the principal amount of $4 million under which no payments are due until June 30, 2019 (except in connection with acceleration upon an event of default), and (iii) we pledged certain of our assets to secure our obligations under the IOENGINE Note, notably the NXSN Note. As described in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above, as part of the NXSN Transaction, the Company agreed, pursuant to the terms of the Pre-Payment Agreement (as defined above), to prepay the GlassBridge Note (as defined above), originally in the amount of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000) plus interest over the period from June 30, 2019 through September 28, 2020, for Two Million Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($2,250,000). On May 6, 2016, Nexsan Technologies Incorporated, a subsidiary of NXSN (“NTI”), filed a complaint in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts seeking a declaratory judgment against EMC Corporation (“EMC”). NTI alleges that NTI has a priority of right to use certain of its UNITY trademarks and that NTI’s prosecution of its trademark applications with the respect to, and to use of, such trademarks does not infringe upon EMC’s trademarks. In addition, NTI seeks injunctive relief to prevent EMC from threatening NTI with legal action related to use of UNITY trademarks or making any public statements or statements to potential customers calling into question NTI’s right to use UNITY trademarks. EMC has answered and counterclaimed alleging that NTI’s use of the UNITY trademark infringes EMC’s common law rights in the UNITY and EMC UNITY trademarks. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (USDC) has found (in an interlocutory ruling) that any prior use by EMC was not sufficient to overcome NTI’s priority by virtue of its filing of its trademark applications. We are currently seeking an order from the USDC compelling the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (TTAB) to proceed to determine the registrability of “Nexsan Unity” over EMC’s opposition, which the TTAB has refused so far to do until the USDC proceeding is completely final. In connection with the NXSN Transaction (as defined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above), pursuant to the terms of the SPA (as defined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above), the Company has conveyed to the Buyer (as defined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above) all right, title and interests in this action, including any rights to receive damages from EMC Corporation. As of this date, the Company has no right, title or interest in this action. Trade Related Litigation On January 26, 2016, CMC, a supplier of our Legacy Businesses, filed a suit in the District Court of Ramsey County Minnesota, seeking damages from the Company and the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Imation Latin America Corp. (“ILAC”) for alleged breach of contract. CMC also brought similar claims in Japan and the Netherlands against other of our subsidiaries. As previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K we filed with the SEC on September 18, 2017, we entered into a settlement agreement with CMC on September 15, 2017 resolving all claims relating to the CMC lawsuits. Pursuant to the settlement, (i) we agreed that our subsidiary Imation Corporation Japan (“ICJ”) will cause the release and payment to CMC of approximately $9.2 million in attached assets, (ii) ICJ made a payment to CMC of $1.5 million on October 10, 2017, (iii) our subsidiary Imation Europe B.V. (“IEBV”) will cause the release and payment to CMC of approximately $825,000 in attached assets, (iv) ICJ issued to CMC an unsecured promissory note (the “CMC Note”) in the amount of $1.5 million, and (v) we guaranteed CMC ICJ’s obligations under the CMC Note. As of December 31, 2017, both ICJ and Europe B.V. had released the required payments to CMC. In January 2018, ICJ made a $0.5 million payment to CMC in relation to the $1.5 million CMC Note discussed above. ICJ was a defendant in a lawsuit in The Tokyo District Court, Civil 49th Division, brought against it by Suntop Art Work Co., Ltd., seeking damages of at least 100 Million Yen (approximately $900,000 at the current exchange rate) plus interest, based on allegations that ICJ is in violation of a Japanese legal equitable principle requiring long-term business counterparties to provide a judicially-determined adequate notice of cessation of business even when a shorter time has been agreed in writing by the parties. This case was settled and dismissed in exchange for a payment by ICJ of 5 Million Yen (approximately $45,000 at the then current exchange rate) on June 11, 2018. The Company has various trade disputes with vendors related to either the Legacy Businesses or the Nexsan Business. The Company believes it has made adequate accruals with respect to the disputes for which such is appropriate according to our accounting policy. Employee Matters On March 29, 2017, three former Legacy Business employees who were among the approximately 100 similarly situated employees terminated as a result of the Restructuring Plan filed a lawsuit in the Minnesota State District Court of Ramsey County asserting state law claims for non-payment of allegedly promised severance benefits of approximately $200,000. While full discovery of the relevant facts has not been completed, we believe these state law claims are without merit and are vigorously defending our position. While an unfavorable outcome is reasonably possible, an estimate of such loss cannot be made at this time. IEBV is the defendant in four separate lawsuits in trial courts in Versailles and Bordeaux, France, brought by former employees based on the alleged failure to have provided them, in accordance with the French labor laws in effect at the time of their termination, with employment opportunities elsewhere in the world commensurate with their abilities and positions prior to termination. The plaintiffs in the IEBV lawsuits are seeking an aggregate of approximately $700,000. IEBV believes these claims are entirely without merit and is vigorously defending its position. The Company believes it has made adequate accruals with respect to the disputes for which such is appropriate according to our accounting policy. The Company has also received demand letters from three Nexsan former executives seeking severance payments in the amount of approximately of $500,000 total. In connection with the SPA executed as part of the NXSN Transaction, the Company disclosed in Section 2.7 of the Disclosure Schedules to such SPA all actions, orders, including proposed or threatened litigation, or any related matters (together, the “Actions”) regarding Nexsan, including these claims. Pursuant to the terms of the SPA and the NXSN Transaction, upon the consummation of the NXSN Transaction, the Company thereby divested itself of any obligations, liabilities, right, title and/or interest in or to such Actions, including these claims, with the Buyer obtaining all obligations, liabilities, right, title and/or interest in or to the Actions, including these claims. Copyright Levies In many European Union (“EU”) member countries, the sale of certain of our Legacy Business products is subject to a private copyright levy. The levies are intended to compensate copyright holders with “fair compensation” for the harm caused by private copies made by natural persons of protected works under the European Copyright Directive, which became effective in 2002 (the “Directive”). Levies are generally charged directly to the importer of the product upon the sale of the products. Payers of levies remit levy payments to collecting societies which, in turn, are expected to distribute funds to copyright holders. Levy systems of EU member countries must comply with the Directive, but individual member countries are responsible for administering their own systems. Since implementation, the levy systems have been the subject of numerous litigation and law-making activities. On October 21, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) ruled that fair compensation is an autonomous European law concept that was introduced by the Directive and must be uniformly applied in all EU member states. The CJEU stated that fair compensation must be calculated based on the harm caused to the authors of protected works by private copying. The CJEU ruling made clear that copyright holders are only entitled to fair compensation payments (funded by levy payments made by importers of applicable products, including the Company) when sales of optical media are made to natural persons presumed to be making private copies. Within this disclosure, we use the term “commercial channel sales” when referring to products intended for uses other than private copying and “consumer channel sales” when referring to products intended for uses including private copying. In addition, various decisions and enactments have established that the levy rates in various countries improperly excluded from their calculations and assessments the private copying performed using computers and smartphones. This in turn meant that to the extent levy rates were determined to be retroactively excessive, the Company would be entitled to a rebate on that basis as well. Since the Directive was implemented in 2002, we estimate that we have paid in excess of $100 million in levies to various ongoing collecting societies related to commercial channel sales. Based on the CJEU’s October 2010 ruling and subsequent litigation and law-making activities, we believe that these payments were not consistent with the Directive and should not have been paid to the various collecting societies. Accordingly, subsequent to the October 21, 2010 CJEU ruling, we began withholding levy payments to the various collecting societies and, in 2011, we reversed our existing accruals for unpaid levies related to commercial channel sales. However, we continued to accrue, but not pay, a liability for levies arising from consumer channel sales, in all applicable jurisdictions except Italy and France due to certain court rulings in those jurisdictions. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, we had accrued liabilities of $5.4 million and $5.6 million, respectively, associated with levies related to consumer channel sales for which we are withholding payment. These accruals are recorded as “Other current liabilities” on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets (and not within discontinued operations). The Company’s management oversees copyright levy matters and continues to explore options to resolve these matters. Since the October 2010 CJEU ruling, for as long as sales were made in these countries, we evaluated quarterly on a country-by-country basis whether (i) levies should be accrued on current period commercial and/or consumer channel sales; and, (ii) whether accrued, but unpaid, copyright levies on prior period consumer channel sales should be reversed. Our evaluation is made on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis and considers ongoing and cumulative developments related to levy litigation and law making activities within each jurisdiction as well as throughout the EU. The Company is still subject to several pending or threatened legal actions by the individual European national levy collecting societies in relation to private copyright levies under the Directive. These remaining actions generally seek payment of the commercial and consumer optical levies withheld by IEBV and its German subsidiary. IEBV and its German subsidiary have corresponding claims in those actions seeking reimbursement of levies improperly collected by those collecting societies. IEBV and its German subsidiary are also subject to threatened actions by certain of their former customers seeking reimbursement of funds they allege related to commercial levies that they claim they should not have paid. Although these actions are subject to the uncertainties inherent in the litigation process, based on the information presently available to us, management does not expect the ultimate resolution of these actions will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. As noted below with respect to France and the Netherlands, it is possible, and uncertain as to timing and amount, that by either settlement or litigation, IEBV could recover materially significant amounts from the levy authorities or their government sponsors. We anticipate that additional court decisions may be rendered that may directly or indirectly impact our levy exposure in specific European countries which could cause us to review our levy exposure in those countries. France. We have overpaid levies related to sales into the Company’s commercial channel in an amount of $55.1 million. On the basis of a ruling from Court of Justice of the Europeon Union (“CJEU”), we adopted a practice of offsetting ongoing levy liabilities for IEBV’s sales in the consumer channel against the $55.1 million in levies that the Company overpaid related to sales in the commercial channel prior to October 21, 2010 (the date of the CJEU's ruling). During the fourth quarter of 2013, the Company reversed $9.5 million of French copyright levy accruals (existing at the time of a 2013 French court decision). As of September 30, 2018, we had offset approximately $14.4 million. We believe that we have utilized a methodology, and have sufficient documentation and evidence, to fully support our estimation that we have overpaid $55.1 million in commercial channel levies to the French collection society and that we have incurred (but not paid) $14.4 million of levies related to the Company's consumer channel sales in France. However, such amounts are currently subject to challenge in litigation and there is no certainty that our estimates would be upheld and supported. In December 2012, IEBV filed a complaint against the French collection society, Copie France, for reimbursement of the $55.1 million in commercial channel levies that IEBV had paid prior to October 2010. In this proceeding, Copie France filed a counterclaim against the Company for payment of the levies withheld by the Company. A hearing occurred on December 8, 2015, in the High Court of Justice (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (“TGIP”)) on IEBV’s claim and Copie France’s counterclaim. On April 8, 2016, the TGIP rejected all of IEBV’s claims finding that the European Union law arguments raised by IEBV were inapplicable and relied solely on French law to grant Copie France’s counterclaims of approximately $17 million. IEBV filed a notice of appeal which suspended enforcement of the ruling. On October 9, 2018, the Paris Court of Appeals affirmed the TGIP's ruling in favor of Copie France and against the Company. To appeal this ruling, the Company may be required to first pay the judgment in the amount of approximately $17 million. We believe Copie France's counterclaim is without merit and intend to defend IEBV's position vigorously. We are now preparing to appeal the France Supreme Court (Cours de Cassation) which is the final stage in the process of reaching the CJEU. Despite these adverse rulings, the Company does not believe it to be probable that it will have to make any copyright levy payments in the future to Copie France and, accordingly, has not recorded an accrual for this matter. The likely outcome and time to reach a final resolution through the appellate process at the Cours de Cassation, which may include the possibility of preliminary questions to the CJEU, remains unclear. We estimate, however, that an ultimate net recovery remains reasonably foreseeable, which could be in the millions of dollars. The Netherlands. IEBV is currently involved in pending litigation in the Netherlands, both as a sole complainant and a co-complainant and counterparty, with Stichting de Thuiskopie (“Thuiskopie”) and the government of the Netherlands (“Dutch State”) concerning disputed levies on optical media based on both improper levies on commercial channel sales and excessive rates due to the exclusion of computer and smartphone and illegal copying. The Dutch State has reduced the levy rates based on the exclusion theory but has as yet refused to apply the reduced rates retroactively for rebate purposes. Specifically, IEBV is (A) the sole complainant in the action pending versus Thuiskopie and the Dutch State, originally identified as C/09/489719/HA ZA 15-659 of the District Court of The Hague (the “IE Case”), and (B) a co-complainant in the case brought by the association of vendors of similar products, originally identified as C/09/438914/HA ZA 13-264 (the “FIAR Case”). In the IE Case, there has been an interlocutory ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court in IEBV’s favor; however, several important issues and procedural steps remain. We estimate that eventual net recoveries could range between $5 million and $10 million, although it is also possible that there will be no material recoveries. IEBV is only a small part, approximately 15%, of the plaintiff group in the FIAR Case; however, the total amount sought by the plaintiffs therein may be as much as $100 million. Germany. During the first quarter of 2015, GlassBridge reversed $2.8 million accrual for German copyright levies on optical products as the result of a favorable German court decision retroactively setting levy rates at a level much lower than the rates sought by the German collecting society. The reversal was recorded as a reduction of cost of sales. As of September 30, 2018, the Company had an accrual of $5.1 million, which was included in other current liabilities of Continuing Operations. IEBV and its German subsidiary are in the process of finalizing an agreed settlement with the German collecting society that would result in mutual releases with a payment by IEBV of an amount that would not have a material adverse effect upon IEBV. Litigation Finance Agreement On May 21, 2018 (the “Signing Date”), IEBV entered into a litigation finance and management agreement (the “Litigation Management Agreement”), effective as of May 1, 2018 (the “Effective Date”), with Mach 5 B.V., a company organized under the laws of the Netherlands (“Mach 5”), relating to the Dutch Litigation and the French Litigation. Mach 5 and its affiliates possess expertise and have an interest in the subject matter of the Dutch Litigation and the French Litigation. Pursuant to the Litigation Management Agreement, Mach 5 has agreed, as of the Effective Date, to assume the responsibility for paying IEBV’s legal fees and expenses and managing the tactics and strategy of IEBV’s Dutch and French counsel relating to the Dutch Litigation and the French Litigation and to pay fifty percent (50%) of the legal fees of IEBV’s Dutch counsel incurred from March 1, 2018 through the Effective Date. In addition, IEBV has agreed that Mach 5 will be entitled to receive the following percentages of all amounts actually received by IEBV in the Dutch Litigation and French Litigation, whether by settlement or legal process (net of any amounts payable to IEBV’s French counsel in respect of any contingent fee arrangement in effect on the Effective Date): •Thirty percent (30%) if received within one year after the Signing Date; •Twenty-seven and one-half percent (27.5%) if received after one year after the Signing Date; and •Twenty-five percent (25%) if received after two years after the Signing Date. Neither party to the Litigation Management Agreement will have the right to terminate it prior to the third anniversary date of the Signing Date unless there is an uncured material breach of the agreement. Indemnification Obligations In the normal course of business, we periodically enter into agreements that incorporate general indemnification language. Performance under these indemnities would generally be triggered by a breach of terms of the contract or by a supportable third-party claim. There have historically been no material losses related to such indemnifications. As of September 30, 2018 and 2017, estimated liability amounts associated with such indemnifications were not material. Environmental Matters Our Legacy Business operations and indemnification obligations resulting from our spinoff from 3M subject us liabilities arising from a wide range of federal, state and local environmental laws. For example, from time to time we have received correspondence from 3M notifying us that we may have a duty to defend and indemnify 3M with respect to certain environmental claims such as remediation costs. Environmental remediation costs are accrued when a probable liability has been determined and the amount of such liability has been reasonably estimated. These accruals are reviewed periodically as remediation and investigatory activities proceed and are adjusted accordingly. We did not have any environmental accruals as of September 30, 2018. Compliance with environmental regulations has not had a material adverse effect on our financial results. Sold Accounts Receivable Litigation As noted above, following the NXSN Transaction, in the first quarter of 2017, Nexsan Technologies, Inc. (“NTI”) sold $1.2 million of its accounts receivable to individuals (the “Receivables Purchasers”) introduced by or affiliated with Spear Point for a discounted purchase price of $1.1 million, subject to a right to repurchase within five months of the original sale at the original sales price plus 2% interest per month. The accounts receivable sale was recorded as a sale of financial assets under ASC 860. After exercising the remedies referred to above pursuant to the NXSN Default Notice and the NXSN Exercise Notice, we were made aware that the proceeds of the sold accounts receivable may have been either paid to NTI or canceled or replaced by the account debtors. On June 15, 2018, a lawsuit was commenced in the 22nd Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Tammany, Louisiana, by two of the purchasers, Messrs. Mack and Romano, against a number of defendants including NTI, NXSN and the Company, and seeking total damages in excess of $500,000, which lawsuit was removed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on July 10 (the “Receivables Litigation”). As described in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above, as part of the NXSN Transaction: (i) NXSN, Nexsan US and Humilis entered into the NTI A/R Settlement Agreement with Messrs. Mack and Romano and the Receivables Litigation was settled, and will be dismissed with prejudice, in return for a payment to Messrs. Mack and Romano in the amount of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000) and (ii) the remaining Receivables Purchaser’s claim has been limited to any claim he might assert against parties not affiliated with the Company.

Litigation, Commitments and Contingencies

The Company is a party, as either a sole or joint defendant or plaintiff, in various lawsuits, claims and other legal matters that arise in the ordinary course of conducting business (including litigation relating to our Legacy Businesses and discontinued operations). All such matters involve uncertainty and accordingly, outcomes that cannot be predicted with assurance. As of September 30, 2018, we are unable to estimate with certainty the ultimate aggregate amount of monetary liability or financial impact that we may incur with respect to these matters. It is reasonably possible that the ultimate resolution of these matters, individually or in the aggregate, could materially affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Intellectual Property Litigation

The Company is subject to allegations of patent infringement by our competitors as well as non-practicing entities (“NPEs”) - sometimes referred to as “patent trolls” - who may seek monetary settlements from us, our competitors, suppliers and resellers. The nature of such litigation is complex and unpredictable and, consequently, as of September 30, 2018, the Company is not able to reasonably estimate with precision the amount of any monetary liability or financial impact that may be incurred with respect to these matters. As of September 30, 2018, except as set forth below with respect to the IOENGINE settlement, given the exits from the Legacy Businesses, the Company believes that the ultimate resolution of these matters in the aggregate will not materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

On December 31, 2014, IOENGINE, an NPE, filed suit in the District Court for the District of Delaware alleging infringement of United States Patent No. 8,539,047 by certain products we formerly sold under the IronKey brand. On February 17, 2017, following a trial, the jury returned a verdict against us in the patent infringement case brought by IOENGINE against the Company in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The jury awarded the IOENGINE $11.0 million in damages. As previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K we filed with the SEC on September 28, 2017, we entered into a settlement agreement with IOENGINE on September 28, 2017 resolving all claims relating to the IOENGINE lawsuit. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, (i) we paid IOENGINE $3.75 million in cash on October 3, 2017, (ii) issued to IOENGINE a promissory note (the “IOENGINE Note”) in the principal amount of $4 million under which no payments are due until June 30, 2019 (except in connection with acceleration upon an event of default), and (iii) we pledged certain of our assets to secure our obligations under the IOENGINE Note, notably the NXSN Note. As described in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above, as part of the NXSN Transaction, the Company agreed, pursuant to the terms of the Pre-Payment Agreement (as defined above), to prepay the GlassBridge Note (as defined above), originally in the amount of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000) plus interest over the period from June 30, 2019 through September 28, 2020, for Two Million Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($2,250,000).

On May 6, 2016, Nexsan Technologies Incorporated, a subsidiary of NXSN (“NTI”), filed a complaint in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts seeking a declaratory judgment against EMC Corporation (“EMC”). NTI alleges that NTI has a priority of right to use certain of its UNITY trademarks and that NTI’s prosecution of its trademark applications with the respect to, and to use of, such trademarks does not infringe upon EMC’s trademarks. In addition, NTI seeks injunctive relief to prevent EMC from threatening NTI with legal action related to use of UNITY trademarks or making any public statements or statements to potential customers calling into question NTI’s right to use UNITY trademarks. EMC has answered and counterclaimed alleging that NTI’s use of the UNITY trademark infringes EMC’s common law rights in the UNITY and EMC UNITY trademarks. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (USDC) has found (in an interlocutory ruling) that any prior use by EMC was not sufficient to overcome NTI’s priority by virtue of its filing of its trademark applications. We are currently seeking an order from the USDC compelling the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (TTAB) to proceed to determine the registrability of “Nexsan Unity” over EMC’s opposition, which the TTAB has refused so far to do until the USDC proceeding is completely final. In connection with the NXSN Transaction (as defined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above), pursuant to the terms of the SPA (as defined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above), the Company has conveyed to the Buyer (as defined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above) all right, title and interests in this action, including any rights to receive damages from EMC Corporation. As of this date, the Company has no right, title or interest in this action.

Trade Related Litigation

On January 26, 2016, CMC, a supplier of our Legacy Businesses, filed a suit in the District Court of Ramsey County Minnesota, seeking damages from the Company and the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Imation Latin America Corp. (“ILAC”) for alleged breach of contract. CMC also brought similar claims in Japan and the Netherlands against other of our subsidiaries. As previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K we filed with the SEC on September 18, 2017, we entered into a settlement agreement with CMC on September 15, 2017 resolving all claims relating to the CMC lawsuits. Pursuant to the settlement, (i) we agreed that our subsidiary Imation Corporation Japan (“ICJ”) will cause the release and payment to CMC of approximately $9.2 million in attached assets, (ii) ICJ made a payment to CMC of $1.5 million on October 10, 2017, (iii) our subsidiary Imation Europe B.V. (“IEBV”) will cause the release and payment to CMC of approximately $825,000 in attached assets, (iv) ICJ issued to CMC an unsecured promissory note (the “CMC Note”) in the amount of $1.5 million, and (v) we guaranteed CMC ICJ’s obligations under the CMC Note. As of December 31, 2017, both ICJ and Europe B.V. had released the required payments to CMC. In January 2018, ICJ made a $0.5 million payment to CMC in relation to the $1.5 million CMC Note discussed above.

ICJ was a defendant in a lawsuit in The Tokyo District Court, Civil 49th Division, brought against it by Suntop Art Work Co., Ltd., seeking damages of at least 100 Million Yen (approximately $900,000 at the current exchange rate) plus interest, based on allegations that ICJ is in violation of a Japanese legal equitable principle requiring long-term business counterparties to provide a judicially-determined adequate notice of cessation of business even when a shorter time has been agreed in writing by the parties. This case was settled and dismissed in exchange for a payment by ICJ of 5 Million Yen (approximately $45,000 at the then current exchange rate) on June 11, 2018.

The Company has various trade disputes with vendors related to either the Legacy Businesses or the Nexsan Business. The Company believes it has made adequate accruals with respect to the disputes for which such is appropriate according to our accounting policy.

Employee Matters

On March 29, 2017, three former Legacy Business employees who were among the approximately 100 similarly situated employees terminated as a result of the Restructuring Plan filed a lawsuit in the Minnesota State District Court of Ramsey County asserting state law claims for non-payment of allegedly promised severance benefits of approximately $200,000. While full discovery of the relevant facts has not been completed, we believe these state law claims are without merit and are vigorously defending our position. While an unfavorable outcome is reasonably possible, an estimate of such loss cannot be made at this time.

IEBV is the defendant in four separate lawsuits in trial courts in Versailles and Bordeaux, France, brought by former employees based on the alleged failure to have provided them, in accordance with the French labor laws in effect at the time of their termination, with employment opportunities elsewhere in the world commensurate with their abilities and positions prior to termination. The plaintiffs in the IEBV lawsuits are seeking an aggregate of approximately $700,000. IEBV believes these claims are entirely without merit and is vigorously defending its position. The Company believes it has made adequate accruals with respect to the disputes for which such is appropriate according to our accounting policy.

The Company has also received demand letters from three Nexsan former executives seeking severance payments in the amount of approximately of $500,000 total. In connection with the SPA executed as part of the NXSN Transaction, the Company disclosed in Section 2.7 of the Disclosure Schedules to such SPA all actions, orders, including proposed or threatened litigation, or any related matters (together, the “Actions”) regarding Nexsan, including these claims. Pursuant to the terms of the SPA and the NXSN Transaction, upon the consummation of the NXSN Transaction, the Company thereby divested itself of any obligations, liabilities, right, title and/or interest in or to such Actions, including these claims, with the Buyer obtaining all obligations, liabilities, right, title and/or interest in or to the Actions, including these claims.

In many European Union (“EU”) member countries, the sale of certain of our Legacy Business products is subject to a private copyright levy. The levies are intended to compensate copyright holders with “fair compensation” for the harm caused by private copies made by natural persons of protected works under the European Copyright Directive, which became effective in 2002 (the “Directive”). Levies are generally charged directly to the importer of the product upon the sale of the products. Payers of levies remit levy payments to collecting societies which, in turn, are expected to distribute funds to copyright holders. Levy systems of EU member countries must comply with the Directive, but individual member countries are responsible for administering their own systems. Since implementation, the levy systems have been the subject of numerous litigation and law-making activities. On October 21, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) ruled that fair compensation is an autonomous European law concept that was introduced by the Directive and must be uniformly applied in all EU member states. The CJEU stated that fair compensation must be calculated based on the harm caused to the authors of protected works by private copying. The CJEU ruling made clear that copyright holders are only entitled to fair compensation payments (funded by levy payments made by importers of applicable products, including the Company) when sales of optical media are made to natural persons presumed to be making private copies. Within this disclosure, we use the term “commercial channel sales” when referring to products intended for uses other than private copying and “consumer channel sales” when referring to products intended for uses including private copying. In addition, various decisions and enactments have established that the levy rates in various countries improperly excluded from their calculations and assessments the private copying performed using computers and smartphones. This in turn meant that to the extent levy rates were determined to be retroactively excessive, the Company would be entitled to a rebate on that basis as well.

Since the Directive was implemented in 2002, we estimate that we have paid in excess of $100 million in levies to various ongoing collecting societies related to commercial channel sales. Based on the CJEU’s October 2010 ruling and subsequent litigation and law-making activities, we believe that these payments were not consistent with the Directive and should not have been paid to the various collecting societies. Accordingly, subsequent to the October 21, 2010 CJEU ruling, we began withholding levy payments to the various collecting societies and, in 2011, we reversed our existing accruals for unpaid levies related to commercial channel sales. However, we continued to accrue, but not pay, a liability for levies arising from consumer channel sales, in all applicable jurisdictions except Italy and France due to certain court rulings in those jurisdictions. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, we had accrued liabilities of $5.4 million and $5.6 million, respectively, associated with levies related to consumer channel sales for which we are withholding payment. These accruals are recorded as “Other current liabilities” on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets (and not within discontinued operations). The Company’s management oversees copyright levy matters and continues to explore options to resolve these matters.

Since the October 2010 CJEU ruling, for as long as sales were made in these countries, we evaluated quarterly on a country-by-country basis whether (i) levies should be accrued on current period commercial and/or consumer channel sales; and, (ii) whether accrued, but unpaid, copyright levies on prior period consumer channel sales should be reversed. Our evaluation is made on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis and considers ongoing and cumulative developments related to levy litigation and law making activities within each jurisdiction as well as throughout the EU.

The Company is still subject to several pending or threatened legal actions by the individual European national levy collecting societies in relation to private copyright levies under the Directive. These remaining actions generally seek payment of the commercial and consumer optical levies withheld by IEBV and its German subsidiary. IEBV and its German subsidiary have corresponding claims in those actions seeking reimbursement of levies improperly collected by those collecting societies. IEBV and its German subsidiary are also subject to threatened actions by certain of their former customers seeking reimbursement of funds they allege related to commercial levies that they claim they should not have paid. Although these actions are subject to the uncertainties inherent in the litigation process, based on the information presently available to us, management does not expect the ultimate resolution of these actions will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. As noted below with respect to France and the Netherlands, it is possible, and uncertain as to timing and amount, that by either settlement or litigation, IEBV could recover materially significant amounts from the levy authorities or their government sponsors. We anticipate that additional court decisions may be rendered that may directly or indirectly impact our levy exposure in specific European countries which could cause us to review our levy exposure in those countries.

France. We have overpaid levies related to sales into the Company’s commercial channel in an amount of $55.1 million. On the basis of a ruling from Court of Justice of the Europeon Union (“CJEU”), we adopted a practice of offsetting ongoing levy liabilities for IEBV’s sales in the consumer channel against the $55.1 million in levies that the Company overpaid related to sales in the commercial channel prior to October 21, 2010 (the date of the CJEU's ruling). During the fourth quarter of 2013, the Company reversed $9.5 million of French copyright levy accruals (existing at the time of a 2013 French court decision). As of September 30, 2018, we had offset approximately $14.4 million. We believe that we have utilized a methodology, and have sufficient documentation and evidence, to fully support our estimation that we have overpaid $55.1 million in commercial channel levies to the French collection society and that we have incurred (but not paid) $14.4 million of levies related to the Company's consumer channel sales in France. However, such amounts are currently subject to challenge in litigation and there is no certainty that our estimates would be upheld and supported. In December 2012, IEBV filed a complaint against the French collection society, Copie France, for reimbursement of the $55.1 million in commercial channel levies that IEBV had paid prior to October 2010. In this proceeding, Copie France filed a counterclaim against the Company for payment of the levies withheld by the Company. A hearing occurred on December 8, 2015, in the High Court of Justice (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (“TGIP”)) on IEBV’s claim and Copie France’s counterclaim. On April 8, 2016, the TGIP rejected all of IEBV’s claims finding that the European Union law arguments raised by IEBV were inapplicable and relied solely on French law to grant Copie France’s counterclaims of approximately $17 million. IEBV filed a notice of appeal which suspended enforcement of the ruling. On October 9, 2018, the Paris Court of Appeals affirmed the TGIP's ruling in favor of Copie France and against the Company. To appeal this ruling, the Company may be required to first pay the judgment in the amount of approximately $17 million. We believe Copie France's counterclaim is without merit and intend to defend IEBV's position vigorously. We are now preparing to appeal the France Supreme Court (Cours de Cassation) which is the final stage in the process of reaching the CJEU. Despite these adverse rulings, the Company does not believe it to be probable that it will have to make any copyright levy payments in the future to Copie France and, accordingly, has not recorded an accrual for this matter. The likely outcome and time to reach a final resolution through the appellate process at the Cours de Cassation, which may include the possibility of preliminary questions to the CJEU, remains unclear. We estimate, however, that an ultimate net recovery remains reasonably foreseeable, which could be in the millions of dollars.

The Netherlands. IEBV is currently involved in pending litigation in the Netherlands, both as a sole complainant and a co-complainant and counterparty, with Stichting de Thuiskopie (“Thuiskopie”) and the government of the Netherlands (“Dutch State”) concerning disputed levies on optical media based on both improper levies on commercial channel sales and excessive rates due to the exclusion of computer and smartphone and illegal copying. The Dutch State has reduced the levy rates based on the exclusion theory but has as yet refused to apply the reduced rates retroactively for rebate purposes. Specifically, IEBV is (A) the sole complainant in the action pending versus Thuiskopie and the Dutch State, originally identified as C/09/489719/HA ZA 15-659 of the District Court of The Hague (the “IE Case”), and (B) a co-complainant in the case brought by the association of vendors of similar products, originally identified as C/09/438914/HA ZA 13-264 (the “FIAR Case”). In the IE Case, there has been an interlocutory ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court in IEBV’s favor; however, several important issues and procedural steps remain. We estimate that eventual net recoveries could range between $5 million and $10 million, although it is also possible that there will be no material recoveries. IEBV is only a small part, approximately 15%, of the plaintiff group in the FIAR Case; however, the total amount sought by the plaintiffs therein may be as much as $100 million.

Germany. During the first quarter of 2015, GlassBridge reversed $2.8 million accrual for German copyright levies on optical products as the result of a favorable German court decision retroactively setting levy rates at a level much lower than the rates sought by the German collecting society. The reversal was recorded as a reduction of cost of sales. As of September 30, 2018, the Company had an accrual of $5.1 million, which was included in other current liabilities of Continuing Operations. IEBV and its German subsidiary are in the process of finalizing an agreed settlement with the German collecting society that would result in mutual releases with a payment by IEBV of an amount that would not have a material adverse effect upon IEBV.

Litigation Finance Agreement

On May 21, 2018 (the “Signing Date”), IEBV entered into a litigation finance and management agreement (the “Litigation Management Agreement”), effective as of May 1, 2018 (the “Effective Date”), with Mach 5 B.V., a company organized under the laws of the Netherlands (“Mach 5”), relating to the Dutch Litigation and the French Litigation. Mach 5 and its affiliates possess expertise and have an interest in the subject matter of the Dutch Litigation and the French Litigation.

Pursuant to the Litigation Management Agreement, Mach 5 has agreed, as of the Effective Date, to assume the responsibility for paying IEBV’s legal fees and expenses and managing the tactics and strategy of IEBV’s Dutch and French counsel relating to the Dutch Litigation and the French Litigation and to pay fifty percent (50%) of the legal fees of IEBV’s Dutch counsel incurred from March 1, 2018 through the Effective Date. In addition, IEBV has agreed that Mach 5 will be entitled to receive the following percentages of all amounts actually received by IEBV in the Dutch Litigation and French Litigation, whether by settlement or legal process (net of any amounts payable to IEBV’s French counsel in respect of any contingent fee arrangement in effect on the Effective Date):

•Thirty percent (30%) if received within one year after the Signing Date;

•Twenty-seven and one-half percent (27.5%) if received after one year after the Signing Date; and

•Twenty-five percent (25%) if received after two years after the Signing Date.

Neither party to the Litigation Management Agreement will have the right to terminate it prior to the third anniversary date of the Signing Date unless there is an uncured material breach of the agreement.

Indemnification Obligations

In the normal course of business, we periodically enter into agreements that incorporate general indemnification language. Performance under these indemnities would generally be triggered by a breach of terms of the contract or by a supportable third-party claim. There have historically been no material losses related to such indemnifications. As of September 30, 2018 and 2017, estimated liability amounts associated with such indemnifications were not material.

Environmental Matters

Our Legacy Business operations and indemnification obligations resulting from our spinoff from 3M subject us liabilities arising from a wide range of federal, state and local environmental laws. For example, from time to time we have received correspondence from 3M notifying us that we may have a duty to defend and indemnify 3M with respect to certain environmental claims such as remediation costs. Environmental remediation costs are accrued when a probable liability has been determined and the amount of such liability has been reasonably estimated. These accruals are reviewed periodically as remediation and investigatory activities proceed and are adjusted accordingly. We did not have any environmental accruals as of September 30, 2018. Compliance with environmental regulations has not had a material adverse effect on our financial results.

Sold Accounts Receivable Litigation

As noted above, following the NXSN Transaction, in the first quarter of 2017, Nexsan Technologies, Inc. (“NTI”) sold $1.2 million of its accounts receivable to individuals (the “Receivables Purchasers”) introduced by or affiliated with Spear Point for a discounted purchase price of $1.1 million, subject to a right to repurchase within five months of the original sale at the original sales price plus 2% interest per month. The accounts receivable sale was recorded as a sale of financial assets under ASC 860. After exercising the remedies referred to above pursuant to the NXSN Default Notice and the NXSN Exercise Notice, we were made aware that the proceeds of the sold accounts receivable may have been either paid to NTI or canceled or replaced by the account debtors. On June 15, 2018, a lawsuit was commenced in the 22nd Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Tammany, Louisiana, by two of the purchasers, Messrs. Mack and Romano, against a number of defendants including NTI, NXSN and the Company, and seeking total damages in excess of $500,000, which lawsuit was removed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on July 10 (the “Receivables Litigation”). As described in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation, above, as part of the NXSN Transaction: (i) NXSN, Nexsan US and Humilis entered into the NTI A/R Settlement Agreement with Messrs. Mack and Romano and the Receivables Litigation was settled, and will be dismissed with prejudice, in return for a payment to Messrs. Mack and Romano in the amount of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000) and (ii) the remaining Receivables Purchaser’s claim has been limited to any claim he might assert against parties not affiliated with the Company.