Legal
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fuller Brush Company
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content: Fuller Brush Company Records
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content: Fuller Brush Company Records / Series 2: Corporate Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1459, Subseries 2.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Legal documents predominately relate to trademark dispute lawsuits, as well as legal cases in Puerto Rico. Trademark cases include a dispute between the Fuller Brush Company and the National Folding Box Company of New Haven, Connecticut concerning the use of the term "Steel Gript," (1940) and another trademark case involving the Fuller Brush Company's vitamin supplement line [approximately 1959?].  Legal exhibits used in connection with trademark cases include advertisements, catalogs, and advertisement cost and compiled sales data. Also included are trial testimonies and work papers, particularly those belonging to the Director of Merchandising for the Fuller Brush Company, Francis L. Smith.

See also box 18, folders 8-9, for financial information possibly related to the vitamin trademark case.

For cases from Puerto Rico (1968-1973), most of the material is correspondence from the Fuller Brush Company's legal representatives (the law offices of Roy J. Cohen, Cohen & Lespier) regarding court cases. However, there are also some legal documents, including a proposed collective bargaining agreement between the Fuller Brush Company and Union de Tronquistas de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Teamster's Union); as well as copies of legal motions and memorandums (Spanish).

Also of interest in this series is a file of release agreements (1955) signed by models and other participants of a Fuller Brush Company publicity campaign.