Portland Loo
When Portland commissioned the design of the loos, it retained the intellectual property rights to the design, and would receive a royalty from the manufacturer, for each loo it sold. Press reports described this arrangement as a source of funds, for the city.
However, in 2014, a citizen group sued the city, asserting the city had spent over $600,000 to promote the loos, without proper authorization. As a consequence the design was sold to Madden, the manufacturer.
Loos &amp; Co.
Loos & Co. has made contributions to organizations within their community and industry. In honor of wire rope pioneer John A. Roebling, Loos & Co. manufactured and donated a stainless steel replica of the iron rope Roebling manufactured for the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Loos & Co. has donated materials to the organization Connecticut Corsair who are restoring an Vought F4U Corsair, a fighter originally manufactured in Connecticut. In the Spring of 2012, Loos & Co. donated wire products to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp founded by Paul Newman and described as "a community dedicated to providing a different kind of healing to seriously ill children."