LG has said that it did not knock off the notch on its flagship LG G7 ThinQ from the Apple iPhone X. Rather, the company says that it thinks of it as a secondary display, which is there to show additional information.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-says-it-didn-t-copy-the-iPhone-X-like-notch-on-the-G7-ThinQ.302248.0.html