The story goes that Monopoly was created and patented by an unemployed heater salesman, Clarence B. Darrow, and then sold to game company Parker Brothers in the 1930s. Forty years later, General Mills, who owned Parker Brothers, sued the economics professor who created Anti-Monopoly.
However, the suit was repealed because it turns out that the Parker Brothers nor Clarence B. Darrow actually invented Monopoly. It was actually created by a Quaker named Lizzie Magie in 1903. It was originally called "The Landlord's Game" and was meant to teach people about the unfairness of land ownership. She probably should have added in something about the unfairness of stealing someone else's ideas.
