Color photographic material and process

Claim 1

A PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL COMPRISING AN EMULSION LAYER CONTAINING A LIGHT-SENSITIVE SILVER HALIDE AND A WATERSOLUBLE NON--DIFFUSING DYE-FORMING COMPOUND CONTAINING -SO3 CATION SOLUBILIZING GROUPS AND SAID DYE-FORMING COMPOUND COMPRISING A HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERIC LINEAR CHAINED RADICAL OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF POLYMERIC HYDROCARBON RADICALS, POLYMERIC OXAHYDROCARBON RADICALS, AND POLYMERIC CARBOSYLIC ACID AMIDE RADICALS HAVING RECURRING AMIDE GROUPS IN THE MAIN LINEAR POLYMERIC CHAIN, SAID POLYMERIC RADICAL CARRYING A PLURALITY OF -SO2Y GROUPS OUTSIDE THE MAIN LINEAR POLYMERIC CHAIN, WHEREIN Y IS A RADICAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AZO DYE COUPLING COMPONENTS AND A RADICAL CAPABLE OF COUPLING WITH THE OXIDATION PROUDCTS OF A PRIMARY AROMATIC AMINO COLOR DEVELOPER TO FORM A DYE, SAID RADICAL Y BEING ATTACHED TO THE SO2 RADICAL BY THE VALENCE BOND OF AN ATOM SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF NITROGEN AND OXYGEN, SAID -SO2Y GROUPS BEING LINKED TO THE MAIN LINEAR CHAIN OF SAID POLYMERIC RADICAL ONLY THROUGH CARBON ATOMS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF CARBON ATOMS OF PHENYL NUCLEI AND CARBON ATOMS OF THE MAIN LINEAR CHAIN.