BRAZILIAN COURT ANNOUNCES FAVORABLE RULING FOR VRINGO

ZTE's Latest Challenge To Overturn Brazilian Preliminary Injunction Fails

NEW YORK - May 18, 2015 - Vringo, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNG), a company engaged in the innovation, development and monetization of intellectual property, today announced that the Brazilian Federal Court in Rio de Janeiro has denied ZTE's motion for a preliminary injunction against Vringo Infrastructure, Inc.

Vringo received a preliminary injunction against ZTE on April 15, 2014. Since that time, ZTE has sought to overturn the injunction by filing numerous appeals. ZTE's most recent attempt to overturn the injunction was a lawsuit filed by ZTE's Brazilian subsidiary. In that lawsuit, ZTE requested a preliminary injunction against Vringo, seeking the Brazilian court impose a royalty rate for a temporary license between the parties

The Court denied ZTE's request for preliminary injunction based solely on the evidence presented in ZTE's own filing. Among other points, the Court found that there was no evidence that ZTE was willing to effectively negotiate a license prior to Vringo's filing an infringement lawsuit against ZTE in the Rio de Janeiro State Court. Following this ruling, the preliminary injunction against ZTE remains in place.

Since April 15, 2014, ZTE has been prohibited from manufacturing, using, offering for sale, selling, installing, testing, or importing any 3G, 4G, or LTE infrastructure equipment in Brazil. The Federal and State Courts of Rio de Janeiro have, six times, denied ZTE's appeal of this injunction. On October 2, 2014, Vringo was granted the right to enforce the injunction against ZTE.

On December 1, 2014, Vringo accompanied a court officer and court-appointed experts on a raid of a ZTE warehouse in Hortolandia, São Paulo, Brazil. After reviewing ZTE's records, the court officer seized ZTE infrastructure equipment and a significant number of documents. Despite a court order requiring it to do so, ZTE failed to present accounting documents during the raid. Nevertheless, from the documents that were seized, Vringo and the court officer uncovered evidence that ZTE has sold infringing products in violation of the injunction. Vringo is currently in the process of reviewing the report prepared by the court-appointed experts of their findings from the raid.

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 600 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

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