Vringo Issues Letter to Shareholders; CEO Andrew Perlman Provides Update on Progress in the First Quarter, Near-Term Outlook, and Recent Merger Announcement

Vringo, Inc.

announced that new Chief Executive Officer Andrew Perlman has provided an update on Vringo's progress in the first quarter, its near-term outlook, and its proposed merger with Innovate/Protect, Inc. March 19, 2012 Dear Fellow Shareholders, First and foremost, I would like to personally thank all of you for your continued support of Vringo. I am writing you today to update you on our progress in the first quarter, our vision for the near term, and our recent merger announcement. Vringo's Board of Directors and management believe that the proposed merger with Innovate/Protect has the potential to maximize shareholder value both now and into the future. The merger combines two of the most strategically important and valuable sectors in technology today: Mobile Social and Intellectual Property. As Vringo continues the success of its current product portfolio including Facetones™ and Video Ringtones, the combined Vringo and Innovate/Protect portfolios of patents provide a far-reaching and fundamental basis for exciting future technology and innovation. We believe that the proposed merger will create value and diversify our potential revenue streams by combining Vringo's mobile social distribution platform, existing products, large customer base, and licensing experience with Innovate/Protect's innovation team, valuable patent portfolio and litigation expertise. We expect that the core business of mobile apps and services, most notably Facetones™ and Video Ringtones, will continue to develop under the leadership of Andrew Lang. Andrew is an internet pioneer and former Chief Technology Officer at Lycos, who would join us from Innovate/Protect to become our Chief Technology Officer, where he would focus on maximizing our innovations and partnerships, if the merger is consummated. Since we last updated you in December, we have: Reached more than one million downloads of our Facetones™ product Entered into an agreement with Facebook® over the use of the name Facetones™ Partnered with Nokia to launch our Facetones™ and Video Ringtone products Received notice of allowance for our first European patent Raised an additional $3.6 million through the exercise of outstanding warrants, which has improved the company's cash position and streamlined its capitalization table We begin the second quarter excited about the future of our products and upcoming developments. With the proposed merger, which we expect to close during the second quarter, we believe that we are establishing a strong team within this combined entity for potential future product development. We will continue to develop our Facetones™ product. We see a bright future in Mobile Social as we continue to improve our advertising monetization, launch the service with additional mobile carriers around the world, and work diligently towards partnerships with top handset manufactures, such as Nokia and ZTE, to pre-load our software products on handsets when they are shipped. In the near term, we expect to: Establish partnerships and launch our products with additional mobile carriers around the world Sign additional agreements with major handset makers to pre-load our software Commence shipments of devices pre-loaded with Facetones™ Integrate with additional mobile advertising networks Integrate additional social media content sources into our Facetones™ product Close our proposed merger with Innovate/Protect In addition, we plan to file documents with the SEC and announce the date of the shareholder meeting to approve the merger. Please be on a lookout for both. As we told you last week, this merger could allow Vringo to be a company with even greater technology leadership and potential, combined with an increased portfolio of intellectual property, which could significantly diversify our existing revenue streams. Innovate/Protect maximizes the economic benefits of intellectual property assets. Innovate/Protect obtained eight patents covering inventions by Andrew Lang and Donald Kosak from Lycos, and brought together an experienced team including Don Stout, President of NTP, Inc.; H. Van Sinclair, the President and CEO of the RLJ Companies and former partner-in-charge of litigation at Arent Fox LLP; David Cohen, former senior litigation counsel at Nokia; and Dickstein Shapiro LLP, a nationally ranked IP litigation law firm. Two of the Lang and Kosak patents are at issue in a patent litigation pending in the Eastern District of Virginia against Google, AOL, Gannett, Target and IAC. The trial is scheduled to commence in less than seven months, on October 16, 2012. The court is scheduled to conduct a Markman hearing to interpret the patents-in-suit on June 4, 2012. We have made additional information regarding the litigation available for your review on our website, www.VringoIP.com. We believe the companies' combined resources will be ample to make it through trial. We will continue to keep you informed on news related to our apps and services, new partnerships and platforms, the anticipated closing of the proposed merger with Innovate/Protect, developments in the litigation, and our progress creating both near-term and long-term value for our shareholders. Regards, Andrew Perlman Chief Executive Officer