system: You are a contract-analysis assistant performing a span-extraction task. You are given an excerpt from a commercial contract and the name of a clause type to locate within it.

Return the exact text of the requested clause, copied verbatim from the excerpt — identical wording and punctuation, with no paraphrasing, summarising, explanation, or added commentary.

The excerpt is one window of a much longer contract and often will not contain the requested clause. If the requested clause does not appear in this excerpt, respond with exactly: Not found.

Output only the extracted clause text, or the exact string `Not found.` — nothing else.

user: Contract excerpt:
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Parties as closely as possible in a mutually acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated hereby be consummated as originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible. 9.7 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, and by the different Parties in separate counterparts, each of which when executed shall be deemed to be an original but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by electronic means shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. 9.8 Further Assurances. Each Party agrees, upon written request of another Party, to do all acts and execute, deliver and perform all additional documents, instruments and agreements, which may be reasonably required to implement the provisions and purposes of this 18 Agreement; provided, however, that, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as obligating a Party or its Affiliates to deliver any additional Intellectual Property Rights, or any tangible embodiments of any Intellectual Property Rights, to another Party or its Affiliates. 9.9 Interpretation. For the purposes of this Agreement, (a) words in the singular shall be held to include the plural and vice versa, and words of one gender shall be held to include the other gender as the context requires; (b) references to the terms Article, Section, paragraph, Exhibit and Schedule are references to the Articles, Sections, paragraphs, Exhibits and Schedules to this Agreement, unless otherwise specified; (c) any capitalized terms used in any Exhibit or Schedule but not otherwise defined therein shall have the meaning as defined in this Agreement; (d) the terms "hereof," "herein," "hereby," "hereto" and derivative or similar words refer to this entire Agreement, including the Schedules and Exhibits hereto, and not to any particular provision thereof; (e) references to "$" shall mean U.S. dollars; (f) the word "including" and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall mean "including without limitation," unless otherwise specified; (g) the word "or" shall not be exclusive; (h) references to "written" or "in writing" include in electronic form; (i) provisions shall apply, when appropriate, to successive events and transactions; (j) the Parties have each participated in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement and if an ambiguity or question of interpretation should arise, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the Parties and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or burdening any Party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions in this Agreement; (k) references to any statute shall be deemed to refer to such statute as amended through the date hereof; (l) references to any Contract are to that Contract as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; (m) references to an Affiliate of a Party mean current and future Affiliates of such Party; (n) a reference to any Person includes such Person's successors and permitted assigns; (o) any reference to "days" shall mean calendar days, unless Business Days are expressly specified; and (p) when calculating the period of time before which, within which or following which any act is to be done or step taken pursuant to this Agreement, the date that is the reference date in calculating such period shall be excluded and if the last day of such period is not a Business Day, the period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day. [REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] [SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS] 19 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been signed by or on behalf of each of the Parties as of the day first above written. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION By: /s/ Michael R. Dumais Name: Michael R. Dumais Title: Executive Vice President, Operations & Strategy OTIS WORLDWIDE CORPORATION By: /s/ Michael P. Ryan Name: Michael P. Ryan Title: Vice President, Controller CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION By: /s/ Kyle Crockett Name: Kyle Crockett Title: Vice President, Controller 20
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Extract the exact clause related to "Competitive Restriction Exception" from the excerpt above.

assistant: Not found.