Samsung's request for increasing the length of the highly-anticipated Samsung-Apple trial has been turned down by Judge Lucy Koh of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Jose.

While Judge Koh had earlier told Apple and Samsung - the two tech bigwigs fighting a lawsuit involving smartphone and tablet PC patents - that they would be allowed a maximum of 25 hours for presenting their respective patent-infringement arguments and could show no more than 125 exhibits, Samsung had made a request which would have increased the length of the trial by two times.