Patent ID: 8888865

Claim:
A laundry care composition comprising: a) a thiophene azo carboxylate dye containing a carboxylic acid moiety, with the proviso that the thiophene azo carboxylate dye does not have the following structures b) a laundry care ingredient, wherein said thiophene azo carboxylate dye is represented by general Formula (I): wherein: a.) R 1 is an electron-withdrawing moiety, R 2 is an electron-donating moiety, and R 3 is an electron-withdrawing moiety; and b.) wherein X is a moiety having Formula (II), wherein, in Formula (II), R 4 is a moiety having Formula (V) below: wherein each R 11 and R 12 is hydrogen; m=0 and n=4; Y is —OC(O)GCO 2 M wherein M is H or a charge balancing cation; G is an organic group derived from a substituted succinic anhydride having Formula VI, said anhydride having a molecular weight less than about 353 Daltons; R 5 is a C 1 -C 12 alkyl moiety, namely ethyl; a=1; R 6 is C 1 -C 6 alkyl, namely methyl.