SAN FRANCISCO—Top corporate lawyers representing Waymo and Uber each gave nearly hour-long presentations to bolster their arguments today. The newly public slides arrive on the first court date for the high-profile trial, which centers on whether Uber effectively stole Waymo's secret sauce when the ridesharing company hired away a top engineer named Anthony Levandowski. Levandowski had taken 14,000 internal files without authorization before leaving Waymo, but Uber maintains it did nothing wrong when it hired the engineer in August 2016 and paid an eye-popping $680 million for his startup, Otto, which had only existed for a few months.

Uber argues that it hasn't improperly benefited from what Levandowski took, and the company has, in fact, fired Levandowski since the case began because he would not comply with subpoenas. Waymo will attempt to prove that what Uber acquired was indeed a trade secret and that it was misappropriated going forward.

Ars has published both slide decks from Waymo and Uber in full, but below are some selected highlights.