Ralph Anspach’s anti-monopoly game caught the ire of Parker Brothers—and nearly led to the destruction of their ‘Monopoly’ patent. “Let the children once see clearly the gross injustice ...

On the Monopoly lawsuit that helped resurface Magie's story In the early 1970s, Ralph Anspach ... was a professor at San Francisco State University. He was living in Berkeley, he had two young ...

Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign dented his finances, sent him on a nationwide ...

Professor Ralph Anspach, inventor of a game called "Anti-Monopoly" is locked in a legal battle with General Mills over his claim that the company stole the game "Monopoly" from the public.

The real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light if it weren't for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist named Ralph Anspach.

It was all a lie." The only living person who knew about the game's true history at the time was economics professor Ralph Anspach, who invented the game "Anti-Monopoly." Anspach was embroiled in ...

Hmmmm. In a 1976 photo, Ralph Anspach displays his game Anti-Monopoly along with homemade, Monopoly-like game boards that predated Parker Brothers’ patent of the game in 1935. “Ruthless” has ...

And so it remained until the 1970s, when an economics professor named Ralph Anspach tried to market a game called Anti-Monopoly. Parker Brothers sued, and the resulting lawsuit became a years-long ...

Lizzie’s contribution to the entrepreneurial landscape was lost to history and probably would have remained so if it weren’t for the detective work of Professor Ralph Anspach. Mr. Anspach ...

This history remained largely unknown until the nineteen-seventies, when Ralph Anspach, an economics professor who had fled Nazi Europe, became embroiled in a legal battle with General Mills ...