NEW YORK - March 21, 2014 - Vringo, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNG) today announced that the appeal of Vringo's wholly-owned subsidiary I/P Engine, Inc.'s litigation against AOL, Google et al. (Appeal Nos. 13-1307 and 13-1313) will be heard May 6, 2014 at 10:00am Eastern, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Oral argument of Defendants' later appeal of the District Court's award of supplemental damages and post-verdict damages (Appeal Nos. 14-1233 and 14-1289) may be scheduled once those issues have been fully briefed.

Background

On November 6, 2012, a jury in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia ruled in favor of I/P Engine and against the defendants AOL Inc., Google, Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., Target Corp., and Gannett Co., Inc. with respect to defendants' infringement of the asserted claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,314,420 and 6,775,664.  After upholding the validity of the patents-in-suit, and determining that the asserted claims of the patents were infringed by the defendants, the jury found that reasonable royalty damages should be based on a "running royalty," and that the running royalty rate should be 3.5%.  The jury also awarded I/P Engine a total of approximately $30.5 million.  On November 20, 2012, the clerk entered the District Court's final judgment.  On January 3, 2014, the District Court ordered that I/P Engine recover an additional sum of $17.32 million from Defendants for supplemental damages and prejudgment interest.  

On January 21, 2014, the District Court ruled that Defendants' alleged design-around is "nothing more than a colorable variation of the system adjudged to infringe," and accordingly I/P Engine "is entitled to ongoing royalties as long as Defendants continue to use the modified system."

On January 28, 2014, the District Court ruled that the appropriate ongoing royalty rate for Defendants' continued infringement of the patents-in-suit that "would reasonably compensate [I/P Engine] for giving up [its] right to exclude yet allow an ongoing willful infringer to make a reasonable profit" is a rate of 6.5% of the 20.9% royalty base previously set by the District Court.

I/P Engine and Defendants have appealed the case to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  The District Court proceedings are pending in the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.  The Appellate proceedings are pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  The court dockets for the foregoing cases are publicly available on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records website, www.pacer.gov, which is operated by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is currently considering one request from Google for reexamination of certain claims of one of the asserted patents.  The USPTO has previously upheld the validity of both of the asserted patents.  Documents regarding USPTO proceedings are publicly available on the Patent Application Information Retrieval website, http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair.

About Vringo, Inc.

Vringo, Inc. is engaged in the innovation, development and monetization of intellectual property and mobile technologies.  Vringo`s intellectual property portfolio consists of over 500 patents and patent applications covering telecom infrastructure, internet search, and mobile technologies.  The patents and patent applications have been developed internally, and acquired from third parties.   For more information, visit: www.vringo.com.

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Contacts

Investors and Media:
Cliff Weinstein
Executive Vice President
Vringo, Inc.
646-532-6777
cweinstein@vringoinc.com