What you think you want is the "patent prosecution history." I say "think" because it's kinda "all hope abandon, ye who enter here." Go to uspto.gov and prepare

What you think you want is the "patent prosecution history." I say "think" because it's kinda "all hope abandon, ye who enter here." Go to uspto.gov and prepare to be perplexed. You can be sure the issues of novelty and non-obviousness were argued there. Does that mean they'll be clear to you? Heh. Pro tip: the history is in reverse chronological order. Any doc that's only one page, you can probably ignore. All the arguments are in multi-page PDF's.