The patent dispute between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. escalated after a U.S. judge on Thursday granted both companies permission to add products to their lawsuits, including Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1.

Samsung and Apple now can seek bans on sales of the products in the U.S. before the case goes to trial in 2014. Neither company had been successful in getting a ban in the first U.S. case that went in front of a jury and in which Apple was awarded damages of $1.05 billion.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal accepted Samsung's revised petition to amend its infringement contentions to include Apple's latest smartphone, for which global demand has been strong.

The judge accepted Apple's motion to amend its lawsuit to include the Galaxy Note 10.1, the U.S. version of Samsung's popular smartphone, the Galaxy S III. He also ruled that Apple could include the Jelly Bean operating system in the Galaxy Nexus handset.

Apple sued Samsung in April of last year alleging that the South Korean company copied the design and feel of the iPhone and the iPad tablet computer.