---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 150.1"
title: "37"
number: "150.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/150.1"
---

# §150.1. Definitions.

- (a) Director means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (see [§ 1.9(j)](/cfr/37/1.9.md?p=j)).
- (b) Foreign government means the duly-constituted executive of a foreign nation, or an international or regional intergovernmental organization which has been empowered by its member states to request issuance of Presidential proclamations on their behalf under this part.
- (c) Interim order means an order issued by the Secretary of Commerce under [17 U.S.C. 914](/usc/17/914.md).
- (d) Mask work means a series of related images, however fixed or encoded—
  - (1) Having or representing the predetermined, three-dimensional pattern of metallic, insulating, or semiconductor material present or removed from the layers of a semiconductor chip product; and
  - (2) In which series the relation of the images to one another is that each image has the pattern of the surface of one form of the semiconductor chip product.
- (e) Presidential proclamation means an action by the President extending to foreign nationals, domiciliaries and sovereign authorities the privilege of applying for registrations for mask works pursuant to [17 U.S.C. 902](/usc/17/902.md).
- (f) Request means a request by a foreign government for the issuance of a Presidential proclamation.
- (g) Proceeding means a proceeding to issue an interim order extending protection to foreign nationals, domiciliaries and sovereign authorities under 17 U.S.C. Chapter 9.
- (h) Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce.

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 24447, June 29, 1988, as amended at 68 Fr 14339, Mar. 25, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2); E.O. 12504, 50 FR 4849; 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 335.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 24447, June 29, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[53 FR 24447, June 29, 1988, as amended at 68 Fr 14339, Mar. 25, 2003]