The fact that only variants of the invention, e.g. one of a number of embodiments of it, are not capable of being performed should not immediately give rise to the conclusion that the subject-matter of the invention as a whole is incapable of being performed, i.e. is incapable of resolving the problem involved and therefore of achieving the desired technical result.

Those parts of the description relating to the variants of the invention which are incapable of being performed and the relevant claims must, however, then be deleted at the request of the Opposition Division if the deficiency is not remedied. The patent specification must then be so worded that the remaining claims are supported by the description and do not relate to embodiments which have proved to be incapable of being performed.

Any failure to rectify these deficiencies without good reason will result in the patent being revoked.