“What happens if we can't reach a unanimous decision and people are not budging?” one of the jurors asked in a written note sent to the judge late Thursday afternoon.

The 12 jurors have been deliberating the copyright phase of Oracle's lawsuit against Google since Monday, and they need to be unanimous in any verdict they reach.

It’s not necessarily the case that the jury is deadlocked, Judge William Alsup told the two legal teams before the jury was brought into the courtroom to hear the answer to their question.

"This is not the foreperson writing it," Alsup told the lawyers, referring to the jury's appointed spokesperson, "and second, it doesn't say they have deadlocked, it says 'what happens if.'"

Still, he outlined several options for the lawyers if the jury is in fact deadlocked.