law: Trade Marks Act, 1999  
  25. Duration, renewal, removal and restoration
  
  and registration .- 
  (1) The registration of trade mark, after the
  
  commencement of this Act, shall be for a period of ten years, but may be
  
  renewed from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this section.
  (2) The Registrar shall, on application made
  
  by the registered proprietor of a trade mark in the prescribed manner and
  
  within the prescribed period and subject to payment of the prescribed fee,
  
  renew the registration of the trade mark for a period of ten years from the
  
  date of expiration of the original registration or of the last renewal of
  
  registration, as the case may be (which date is in this section referred to as
  
  the expiration of the last registration).
  (3) At the prescribed time before the
  
  explanation of the last registration of a trade mark the Registrar shall send
  
  notice in the prescribed manner to the registered proprietor of the date of
  
  expiration and the conditions as to payment of fees and otherwise upon which a
  
  renewal of registration may be obtained, and, if at the expiration of the time
  
  prescribed in that behalf those conditions have not been dully complied with
  
  the Registrar may remove the trade mark from the register.
  Provided that the Registrar shall not remove the
  
  trade mark from the register if an application is made in the prescribed form
  
  and the prescribed fee and surcharge is paid within six months from the
  
  expiration f the last registration of the trade mark and shall renew the
  
  registration of the trade mark for a period of ten years under sub-section (2).
  
  
  (4) Where a trade mark has been removed from
  
  the register for non-payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar shall, after
  
  six months and within one year from the expiration of the last registration of
  
  the trade mark, on receipt of an application in the prescribed form and on
  
  payment of the prescribed fee, it satisfied that it is just so to do, restore
  
  the trade mark to the register and renew the registration of the trade mark
  
  either generally or subject to such conditions or limitations as he thinks fit
  
  to impose, for a period of ten years from the expiration of the last
  
  registration.