BLUE LINING Sample Clauses
The "Blue Lining" clause allows a contract to remain enforceable even if certain provisions are found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court. In practice, if a specific term is deemed illegal or void, the clause directs that only the problematic portion is removed or modified, while the rest of the agreement continues in effect. This approach ensures that minor legal issues do not invalidate the entire contract, thereby preserving the parties' overall intentions and reducing the risk of total contract failure due to isolated defects.
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BLUE LINING. If any court of competent jurisdiction determines that any of the restrictive covenants in this Agreement, or any part thereof, is invalid or unenforceable because of the geographic or temporal scope of such provision, it is the intention and agreement of the parties that such court shall have the power to reduce the geographic or temporal scope of such provision, as the case may be, and, in its reduced form, such provision shall then be enforceable.
BLUE LINING a. If any of the provisions of this Agreement relating to time, geographical area, services, products, devices and/or information are deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be overly broad or for any other reason unenforceable, the parties agree that such restrictions herein as to time, geographical area, services products, devices and/or information shall be reduced to such time, geographical area, services, products, devices and/or information as such court shall hold to be reasonable and legally enforceable. In addition, if any court determines that any of the restrictive covenants contained in this Agreement or any part thereof, is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of the restrictive covenants shall not thereby be affected and shall be given full effect without regard to the invalid portions.
b. The Obligor acknowledges that KDTI, the Company and the Obligor intend to and hereby confer jurisdiction to enforce the covenants contained in this Agreement upon the courts of any state within the geographical scope of such covenants. In the event that the courts of one or more of such states shall hold such covenants wholly unenforceable by reason of the breadth of such scope or otherwise, it is the intention of the parties hereto that such determination not bar or in any way affect the right of any of the KDTI Companies to the relief provided above in the courts of any other states within the geographical scope of such covenants, as to breaches of such covenants in such other respective states, the above covenants as they
BLUE LINING. If any of the provisions of this SECTION 10.4 relating to time, geographical area, services, products, devices and/or information are deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be overly broad or for any other reason unenforceable, the parties agree that such restrictions herein as to time, geographical area, services products, devices and/or information shall be reduced to such time, geographical area, services, products, devices and/or information as such court shall hold to be reasonable and legally enforceable. In addition, if any court determines that any of the restrictive covenants contained in this SECTION 10.4 or any part thereof, is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of the restrictive covenants shall not thereby be affected and shall be given full effect without regard to the invalid portions.