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View online Hi, here is your weekly round-up of Out-Law News highlights from international law firm Pinsent Masons.  As always, there are plenty  of other stories from this week.  You can also access our archive of weekly emails.   This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property  Businesses face challenge to obtain value from investors in new London Stock Exchange High Growth Segment, says expert  European technology companies will face a challenge to obtain the same level of backing from investors in a new 'High Growth Segment' of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as US counterparts manage to attract from Nasdaq investors, an expert has said. 07/03/2013 EU body will investigate use of pseudonymisation to reduce businesses' data protection responsibilities A working party of officials from justice departments across the EU has been asked to explore to what extent the pseudonymisation of personal data can be used to "calibrate" businesses' obligations to data protection. 07/03/2013 Leading economists seek to limit power of standard-essential patent owners over licensees  Standard-essential patent owners should be required to try and settle licensing disputes out of court in a bid to restrict the affects of litigation on market innovation, three prominent economists have said. 06/03/2013 Microsoft fined €561m over breach of commitments on website browser choice  The European Commission has fined Microsoft €561 million after finding the company guilty of failing to comply with legally binding commitments it had made to address competition concerns. 06/03/2013 Amazon's display of rival products in search listings for trade marked goods was not infringing, rules US court  Amazon did not infringe on a watch maker's trade mark rights by displaying results for rivals' products when consumers had searched for the watch maker's trade marked goods, a US court has ruled. 05/03/2013 Evernote asks 50m users to reset passwords following IT security personal data breach  An online personal data storage centre has asked all of its users to reset their passwords after reporting that its systems were the subject of an apparent hacking attack. 04/03/2013 Financial Services  The case for mobile: financial promotions and location data  John Salmon’s Financial Services blog Research firm Ovum said recently that mobile banking will be "the clear IT investment priority in 2013" for banks while experts have highlighted the crucial role mobile will play in other sectors. 07/03/2013 Infrastructure  Industry could be caught out by EU-wide prompt payment rules, says expert  Specialist construction contractors have welcomed EU-wide rules on prompt payment of supplier invoices, but an expert has warned that the low-key introduction of the changes into UK law could catch industry by surprise. 07/03/2013 New technical standards published as survey shows threefold increase in BIM usage since 2010  Three times as many companies are now aware of and using building information modelling (BIM) technology to assist in the delivery of construction projects as was the case in 2010, according to new figures. 05/03/2013 Property  A landlord who failed to consult properly with its tenants before incurring service charge costs has been reprieved  A landlord can still recover the cost of carrying out work on a property from its tenants through a service charge even if the landlord does not comply with statutory consultation requirements, provided that the tenants are not "prejudiced" by the landlord's actions, the Supreme Court has ruled. 06 Mar 2013 Energy  Automatic cuts to solar incentives "misunderstand market", expert says  Automatic reductions to the incentives paid to businesses who install solar photovoltaic (PV) technology on buildings "seem to misunderstand how the market works in reality", an expert has said. 06/03/2013 Employment  Home Office announces changes to the Immigration Rules for skilled migrants from April  Changes to the Immigration Rules applying to skilled migrant workers coming to the UK from outside of the European Economic Area will take effect from April, the Home Office has announced. 06/03/2013   Pinsent Masons: combining the experience, resources and international reach of McGrigors and Pinsent Masons   About this email This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of legal news and guidance. 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