SAN FRANCISCO — Before Judge Lucy Koh held up two tablet computers and challenged attorneys to identify the designs, before Robert Van Nest wheeled a file cabinet into Judge William Alsup’s courtroom, Oracle v. SAP was the “it” trial of Silicon Valley.

An SAP A.G. subsidiary stood accused of hacking into Oracle Corp.’s computers and illegally downloading millions of files. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison testified that the theft cost his company $4 billion. Former SAP chief Leo Apotheker, by then Hewlett Packard Co.’s CEO, played Where’s Waldo with process servers.

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