But after the jury entered, the foreman told Alsup that a minority of the jury had not wanted to send the note saying they had reached a partial decision. Those jurors believed there was hope of resolving all the issues after the weekend.

After some discussion with the lawyers out of the jury's earshot, Alsup told them that if there was hope of reaching a full verdict, they should continue to try.

The first question on the verdict form, seen as the most important, is about whether Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android infringed Oracle's Java copyrights. Part "B" of that question asks, if Google did infringe, was its infringement covered by "fair use," which permits copying under limited circumstances.

The next two questions deal with Google's alleged infringement of Oracle's Java API documentation, and some line-by-line copying of a small amount of code into Android. The fourth asks whether public statements from Sun suggesting it supported Android's development were sufficient to make Google believe it didn't need a license for Java.

The judge didn't want the jury to reveal its verdict for any of the questions they had answered, but he asked if the question on which they had reached an impasse was among the first three, and the foreman told him it was.