Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile at search giant Google Inc., said in Taiwan Wednesday that the U.S. International Trade Commission's (ITC's) latest ruling on a patent dispute between U.S. consumer electronics titan Apple Inc. and Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC Corp. could mark the beginning of settling patent battles in the high-tech arena.

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