Section 36, The Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012

(1) An invention qualifies for a utility model certificate ifit is new and industrially applicable. (2) Sections 1 and 3 do not apply in the case of an invention for which a utility model certificate is requested. (3) A utility model certificate shall expire, without a possibility of renewal, at the end of the seventh year after the date of the filing of the application. (4) Section 12 does not apply in the case of utility model (5) In proceedings under section 65, the Court shall invalidate the utility model certificate on the following grounds:- (a) that the claimed invention did not qualify for a utility model certificate, having regard to subsections (1) and (2) of section 2, and subsection (1) of section 4; (b) that the description and the claims do not comply with the requirements prescribed by subsection (5) or (6) of section 10; or (c) that any drawing which is necessary for the understanding of the invention has not been furnished; or (d) that the owner of the utility model certificate is not the inventor or the inventor's successor in title. (6) Subsection (2) of Section 65 does not apply in a case of the utility model certificate.