Patent ID: 8733414

Claim:
A vehicle tire, comprising: a profiled tread and two sidewalls; a sidewall marking on one of said sidewalls and projecting laterally from said sidewall with a given relief height, said sidewall marking having a lower half and an upper half with a positive contour; a protective rib running on a surface of said one of said sidewalls over a circumference of said sidewall substantially above and with spacing distance from said sidewall marking, said protective rib projecting laterally from said sidewall with a relief height that is greater than said given relief height of said sidewall marking; and said protective rib having a lower negative contour with at least one recess formed therein, said lower negative contour being formed to correspond to the positive contour of said sidewall marking facing said protective rib and to accommodate said upper half of said sidewall marking in said recess of said protective rib, said upper half of said sidewall marking projecting upwardly into said recess of said protective rib and said lower half lying below said protective rib.