If the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction declares that any term or provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, the parties hereto agree that the court making the determination will have the power to reduce the scope, duration, or geographic area of the term or provision, to delete specific words or phrases, or to modify or replace any invalid or unenforceable term or provision with a term or provision that is valid and enforceable and that comes closest to expressing the intention of the invalid or unenforceable term or provision, and this Agreement will be enforceable as so modified. The parties further agree that if any part of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced in whole or in part by reason of any rule of law or public policy, and cannot be modified in accordance with this Section 7 , such part shall be deemed to be severed from the remainder of this Agreement for the purpose only of the particular legal proceedings in question, and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Agreement.