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'Samsung Ultra Thin Glass’ Trademark Bid Believed to Be for Next Galaxy Fold 

Samsung Electronics applied to register “Samsung Ultra Thin Glass” Dec. 5 as a U.S. trademark, Patent and Trademark Office records show. The trademark would apply to a wide variety of display panels, said the application. The company is expected to…

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use ultra-thin glass as the cover material for the next generation of its Galaxy Fold smartphones (see 1907250030). The current Galaxy Fold uses a colorless polyimide film plus a hard coat as its cover material, but the polymer coating is much less durable and scratch-resistant than glass, say analysts. Samsung didn’t comment Thursday.