The judge set several deadlines over the weekend for Apple's and Samsung's lawyers to submit arguments to the court so that decisions can be made before Monday morning.

The two companies for chunks of information in documents to be redacted and for certain items of evidence to be sealed so they would only be seen by the jury, judge and lawyers involved in the case.

Judge Lucy Koh, presiding over the case at the U.S. District Court in San Jose, said she will allow some source code, royalty rates and unreported financial data to be sealed. However, she said she would need to see and review the documents before accepting the requests. Most information will have to be public, she said.

Both Apple and Samsung had been liberally redacting documents and asking others be sealed before Reuters filed papers with the court objecting to the classifications being made.

For example, in one filing earlier this week, Apple redacted a key figure in its damages claim against Samsung, but went on to list additional damages of $500 million and $25 million and then noted the total was $2.525 billion. Simple subtraction showed the missing figure was $2 billion -- something subsequently confirmed in an unredacted filing.