Discover the story of Elizabeth Magie, the forgotten inventor of Monopoly, and the importance of Intellectual Property Rights ...

Ralph Anspach, an economics professor and creator of the game Anti-Monopoly, was in a legal battle with the Parker Brothers when he discovered documents that traced Monopoly’s origins back to ...

Buying real estate and driving other players into bankruptcy — that's how the world-famous board game Monopoly works. But its creator had a different mission: She dreamed of a world in which equality ...

The game manufacturer then made a deal with her, which Ralph Anspach later called a "cover-up." according to Pilon: Parker Brothers offered to publish two of Magie's games as compensation.

A different game, Anti-Monopoly, was invented in the 1970s by Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor. He believed that monopolies were the root cause of power ...

Louise Hidalgo has been talking to American journalist Mary Pilon about the hidden history of one of the world's most popular board games, and to the economics professor Ralph Anspach who ...

On my coffee table sits a board game. Designed by Ralph Anspach, it is called Anti-Monopoly. In the original version of the game, play starts with three kinds of “cartels” — trusts, oligopolies and ...

The latter never happened. However, in 1973 a Berkeley professor named Ralph Anspach, who created and tried to copyright a game called “Anti-Monopoly”, was engaged in a legal battle with Parker ...

In 1973, a man named Ralph Anspach was defending a lawsuit from Parker Brothers who had gone after him for his anti-Monopoly game. During his research, Anspach came across Magie’s story and her ...

Monopoly Branding Changed U.S. Trademark Law The Supreme Court ruled against Monopoly and its then-publisher Parker Brothers in 1983 in a case between the company and economist Ralph Anspach, who ...