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NOTE 8 - CONTINGENCIES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
NOTE 8 - CONTINGENCIES

As of June 30, 2013, we were not a party to any legal proceedings, the adverse outcome of which in management’s opinion, individually or in the aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial position. 

 

Indemnification Arrangements:  We may, from time to time in the ordinary course of our business enter into contractual arrangements with third parties that include indemnification obligations.  Under these contractual arrangements, we have agreed to defend, indemnify and/or hold the third party harmless from and against certain liabilities.  These arrangements include indemnities in favor of customers in the event that our programming system products infringe a third party's intellectual property and indemnities in favor of our lessors in connection with facility leasehold liabilities that we may cause.  In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain of our officers, and our bylaws contain indemnification obligations in favor of our directors, officers and agents.  These indemnity arrangements may limit the type of the claim, the total amount that we can be required to be paid in connection with the indemnification obligation and the time within which an indemnification claim can be made.  The duration of the indemnification obligation may vary, and for most arrangements, survives the agreement term and is indefinite.  We believe that substantially all of our indemnity arrangements provide either for limitations on the maximum potential future payments we could be obligated to make, or for limitations on the types of claims and damages we could be obligated to indemnify, or both.  However, it is not possible to determine or reasonably estimate the maximum potential amount of future payments under these indemnification obligations due to the varying terms of such obligations, a lack of history of prior indemnification claims, the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular contractual arrangement and in each potential future claim for indemnification, and the contingency of any potential liabilities upon the occurrence of events that are not reasonably determinable.  We have not had any requests for indemnification under these arrangements.  Our management believes that any liability for these indemnity arrangements would not be material to our accompanying consolidated financial statements.  We have not recorded any liabilities for these indemnification arrangements on our consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2013.