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Mr. Burdett said that PayPal has received three “nonfinal rejections” of its patent application for its PayPal Mobile system, most recently in June.

Google Files for a Phone Payment Service Patent | Impact Lab 2007

There is an important corollary to drawing a distinction between intrinsic value and final value (and between extrinsic value and nonfinal value), and that is that, contrary to what Korsgaard herself initially says, it may be a mistake to contrast final value with instrumental value.

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value Zimmerman, Michael J. 2007

The Patent Office's ruling is nonfinal, so Judge Spencer doesn't have to consider it in his ruling.

RIM Wins One, But It's Not That Big BlackBerry Raspberries 2006

The OV languages show progressive deverbalization of the nonfinal verb in the construction.

Far Outliers 2009

Every bound galley that goes out to book reviewers has a notice on the front saying that this is uncorrected nonfinal text, so please don't quote from it.

Boing Boing 2009

This database contains both final and nonfinal records; a data field in each record distinguishes between them.

WorldVitalRecords Blog 2008

. . if we keep the current policies on RCE, continuations, and nonfinal rejections, we would need to increase the number of examiners by a factor of 1.2230 in order to decrease the total intensity from 1.2230 to 1.

Archive 2007-12-01 Peter Zura 2007

. . if we keep the current policies on RCE, continuations, and nonfinal rejections, we would need to increase the number of examiners by a factor of 1.2230 in order to decrease the total intensity from 1.2230 to 1.

Study Shows USPTO Backlog Is Tied More to Non-Final Actions, and Not Continuations Peter Zura 2007

If the idea is coherent, then we should in principle distinguish two kinds of instrumental value, one final and the other nonfinal. [

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value Zimmerman, Michael J. 2007