Outpatient Hospital Services Hospitals provide a range of outpatient health care services in different settings (suchas outpatient departments, clinics, and ambulatory surgery centers) under variousorganizational and ownership arrangements.
To con someone is to deceive or take advantage of a person through Fraud or trickery after winning the person's confidence. Con is also used as a slang abbreviation for convict, as in ex-con to mean someone previously incarcerated.
The cons are a shortened patent term and also your prior arguments and statements made in the parent application/patent can and will be used against you to narrowly interpret the claim language in a patent maturing from the subsequent continuation-in-part application.