Patent No. U.S. 7,125,936 B2
Nissan Motor Co. and Nippon Paint have received a patent for a clear coating composition comprised of 100 parts by mass of a mixture of a crosslinkable coating film-forming resin and a crosslinking agent on a solid basis and 0.01 to 2 parts by mass of a ladder silicone copolymer obtained by copolymerizing a (meth) acryloxyalkyl-containing ladder silicone oligomer, a crosslinkable functional group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer and optionally another copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer.