PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895532
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["523", "152000"]

Abstract:
A tire tread composition includes a quantity of an elastomer including guayule natural rubber, and a quantity of a hydrocarbon resin substantially evenly distributed throughout the elastomer. The elastomer of the tire tread composition may consist entirely of guayule natural rubber. The hydrocarbon resin may be selected to have a predetermined miscibility in the guayule natural rubber. The predetermined miscibility is measured by a deviation of actual Tg from predicted Tg for either the tire tread composition or an elastomer-resin mixture consistent with the elastomer and resin used in the tire tread composition. In particular, the predetermined miscibility in the guayule natural rubber is less than about six percent (6%) deviation in the actual Tg from the predicted Tg at a 20 phr loading.

Claim (Index 16):
A tire tread composition, comprising:\n a quantity of an elastomer, the elastomer consisting of guayule natural rubber; and a quantity of a hydrocarbon resin substantially evenly distributed throughout the elastomer, the hydrocarbon resin having a predetermined miscibility in the guayule natural rubber at a predetermined concentration of the resin in the elastomer, as measured by a deviation of actual Tg for an elastomer-resin mixture consistent with the elastomer and hydrocarbon resin used in the tire tread composition from predicted Tg for the elastomer-resin mixture, wherein the predetermined miscibility in the elastomer-resin mixture is less than about six percent (6%) deviation in the actual Tg from the predicted Tg and the predetermined concentration of the resin in the elastomer is about twenty (20) phr, and wherein the hydrocarbon resin has a softening point from 110\u00b0 C. to 165\u00b0 C., and wherein the hydrocarbon resin is selected from a group of hydrocarbon resins consisting of cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon resins, aliphatic hydrocarbon resins, polymerized alpha pinene resins, and hydrocarbon resins produced by thermal polymerization of mixed dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) and aromatic styrenic monomers derived from petroleum feedstocks, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0303
- Patent Class: 523.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15623417', '13638840', '14351179', '15692326', '12599920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7572659947757286
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030107171526772
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7318404670134235
- Mean Citation Score: 263.88475800000003
- Max Citation Score: 266.5375
- Similarity Product: 189.2434621579945

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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