{"id":5127,"date":"2026-01-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:51:28","slug":"january-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"January 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On January 5, 1904, U.S. Patent No. 748,626 issued to Lizzie J. Magie on a Game Board:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lizzie’s game is eerily similar to C.B. Darrow’s Monopoly game, patented 31 years later (U.S. Patent No. 2,026,082):<\/p>\n\n\n

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One has to wonder what justified Darrow’s monopoly on Monopoly after Lizzie’s patent? A bunch of street names from Atlantic City, New Jersey?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On January 5, 1904, U.S. Patent No. 748,626 issued to Lizzie J. Magie on a Game Board: Lizzie’s game is eerily similar to C.B. Darrow’s Monopoly game, patented 31 years later (U.S. Patent No. 2,026,082): One has to wonder what … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}