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Samsung, Nordstrom, Budvar, Apple: Intellectual Property

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Samsung Electronics Co. is the leading corporate applier for patents on a new carbon substance for which two scientists at the University of Manchester won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, the BBC reported.

The substance, known as “grapheme,” is a single layer of carbon atoms and, as the thinnest material ever created, has potential uses in a wide range of technologies, according to the BBC.