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D. Trade payables and other items of current liabilities:
The trade payables arise mainly from purchase transactions and bear no interest.
(3) Key management compensation
8. PLEDGED ASSETS
9. SIGNIFICANT CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND UNRECOGNIZED CONTRACT
COMMITMENTS
(1) Contingencies
A. Lawsuits for infringement of intellectual property rights
(A) Several patentees filed lawsuits or investigations for patent infringement including LAN
chip, PCI-Express switch, the patent of Blu-Ray, Bluetooth, thermal management method
and device, Display, Bluetooth HS technology, notebooks, Eee PC, products of Wireless
LAN, products of Wireless telecommunication, equipments with Android system, LTE
function, multi-core ARM processor products, Google Chrome, products with the image
resizing and scanning format conversion, GaN LED products, DVD player subtitle, audio
program player including a dynamic program selection controllers, products with UMTS
network devices, Google Map, standards of data transmission on modem and standards of
wireless telecommunication against the Group. These lawsuits or investigations are
2014/12/31 2013/12/31
Trade payables
-Associates 430$ 36,320$
-Others 75,763 71,241
76,193 107,561
Other items of current liabilities
-Associates 83 18
76,276$ 107,579$
2014 2013
Salaries and other short-term employee 570,906$ 631,843$
benefits
Post-employment benefits 4,718 4,421
575,624$ 636,264$
For the years ended December 31,
Pledged assets Item 2014/12/31 2013/12/31 Purpose
Other current assets Pledged restricted deposits, 206,706$ 155,303$ Note
and other non-current time deposits and
assets refundable deposits
Property, plant Buildings 103,517 99,935 Bank loans
and equipment
310,223$ 255,238$
Note: Security decided by court, pledged for import duties, etc.
Book Value