Commitments and Contingencies Lease Commitments Total minimum annual rental obligations under noncancelable operating leases (substantially all real property or equipment) in force at October 31, 2015 , were payable as follows: (In millions) 2016 $ 27.8 2017 24.2 2018 21.4 2019 18.9 2020 17.4 2021 and thereafter 129.1 $ 238.8 Aggregate rental expense for both cancelable and noncancelable contracts amounted to $27.5 million , $25.6 million and $22.8 million in 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Legal Proceedings On or about November 11, 2014, Johnson &amp; Johnson Vision Care (JJVC) filed an action in the district court of Dusseldorf, Germany, against CooperVision GmbH and CooperVision, Inc. (collectively  CooperVision  or  we ) for patent infringement. In the action, JJVC alleged that certain CooperVision products infringe JJVC s European Patent No. EP 1 754 728 B1, and was seeking damages and to enjoin these products from selling in Germany. We were challenging the validity of the patent before the European Patent Office. In July 2015, CooperVision made a one-time lump sum payment to JJVC of $17.0 million to settle our existing patent disputes. As a result of the settlement, we withdrew our opposition to the JJVC patent filed before the European Patent Office, and JJVC withdrew its complaint of infringement pending before the district court of Dusseldorf, Germany. The settlement included worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual and royalty-free cross-licenses between the parties to certain patents including the JJVC patent referenced above. The settlement also included reciprocal covenants not to sue on those patents which were not licensed with respect to each party s current, core commercialized product offerings, including all silicone hydrogel lenses. Neither party admitted any liability as part of the settlement. Since March 2015, over 50 putative class action complaints were filed by contact lens consumers alleging that contact lens manufacturers, in conjunction with their respective Unilateral Pricing Policy (