{
  "report_slug": "japan-korea-quiet-two-ways-2026",
  "date": "2026-09-30",
  "summary": "Section 849 restricts DoD equipment-procurement contracts from December 18, 2026. The earlier general procurement-and-operation interpretation has been corrected.",
  "changes": [
    "Body and methodology now use the enacted equipment-procurement scope, covered-supplier criteria and purpose exceptions.",
    "Removed unsupported conclusions linking the clause alone to private-supplier operation or displaced demand and financing outcomes."
  ],
  "source_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/pdf/PLAW-119publ60.pdf#page=263",
  "data_snapshot_changed": false,
  "additional_changes": [
    "R11: corrected patent-link eligibility and title-match/parent interpretation; added public document evidence."
  ],
  "patent_counting_contract": {
    "unit": "company-patent pair",
    "population": "company_patents.active=true; manual approval and visibility are not required by the frozen extract",
    "am_scope": "Broad linked estate vs B33Y classification vs title vocabulary are separate predicates, not interchangeable AM-only corpora",
    "first_title_match": "earliest retrieved matching filing; not verified business entry or production start",
    "corporate_group_normalization": "not performed; inherited portfolios and related company rows can overlap",
    "database_active_is_legal_status": false
  },
  "public_patent_examples": [
    {
      "company": "DMG MORI",
      "document": "US12138723B2",
      "scope": "Broad machine-tool estate; not an AM-specific example",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12138723B2/en",
      "source_pdf": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/85/9e/5e/0a5cd8ba8f5901/US12138723.pdf"
    },
    {
      "company": "ROKIT Healthcare",
      "document": "WO2022131461A1",
      "scope": "B33Y-classified medical modelling/AM document",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2022131461A1/en",
      "source_pdf": "https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/77/af/aa/774dea5ef4ae98/WO2022131461A1.pdf"
    }
  ]
}