NEW YORK - May 2, 2013 - Vringo, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNG), a company engaged in the innovation, development and monetization of mobile technologies and intellectual property, today announced that multiple patent applications in Vringo's telecom infrastructure portfolio have been granted.

"As of today, we have over 100 patent applications pending, including 24 in Europe and 47 in the United States," said Andrew K. Lang, President and Chief Technology Officer of Vringo.  "Vringo is committed to the continued development of its patent portfolio."

The following patent applications, which Vringo acquired last year, have now been granted:

• European Patent No. 1,579,640, entitled "Scheduling Retransmission in Access Networks" 

• European Patent No. 1,073,295, entitled "Internal Roaming" 

• Chinese Patent No. 200680036107.5 and its Macao extension entitled "Method, Device, System and Software Product for Providing System Information to Enable Packets Switched Handover" 

• Hong Kong Patent No. 1,108,311B and its Singapore counterpart, Patent No. 154,528, both entitled "System and Method for Informing a Sender of a Message of Content Adaption and Message Failure Issues" 

The granted European Patents have left the European Patent Office and are now in the jurisdiction of various national offices. These patents will be validated nationally in the relevant member states in due course.

The European Patent Office has also sent a notice of intention to grant European Patent No. 1,719,352, entitled "Packet Switched Handover in a Mobile Communication System, During which a Mobile Node Receives Packets from a Source Node and a Target Node".

On April 24, 2013, the State Intellectual Property Office granted Chinese Patent No. ZL201010526581.4, entitled, "Method for Transmitting a Sequence of Symbols".  An extension in Macao will follow in due course.

In addition, two U.S. patents based on Vringo's internally developed technology have been granted: U.S. Patent No. 8,295,205, entitled "Contact Matching of Changing Content Across Platforms" and U.S. Patent No. 8,275,360, entitled "Mobile Video Dating Service".

About Vringo, Inc.

Vringo, Inc. is engaged in the innovation, development and monetization of mobile technologies and intellectual property.  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.  Vringo operates a global platform for the distribution of mobile social applications and services.  For more information, visit: www.vringoIP.com.

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Contacts

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