Important framing note: "Gilman Louie" is not a company — it is an individual. The case data reflects him being named personally as a defendant in his executive/investor capacity.
Company overview. Gilman Louie (born 1960) is a U.S. technology executive, venture capitalist, and former video game designer based in San Francisco. He is co-founder and partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a private early-stage venture firm founded in 2006, and co-founder/CEO of America's Frontier Fund, a nonprofit deep-tech fund. He served as the first CEO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA-backed strategic venture fund, from 1999 to 2006, and was CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions from 2020. As an individual, no revenue, headcount, or market-cap figures apply; Alsop Louie Partners is privately held and does not disclose fund-level returns publicly.
Operations. Louie's professional activity is venture investing and board/advisory service rather than product operations. Alsop Louie Partners invests in cybersecurity, predictive analytics, education, and entertainment companies (portfolio includes Niantic, Wickr, and LookingGlass). Earlier in his career he founded Spectrum HoloByte (later acquired by Hasbro), designed the Falcon flight simulator, and licensed Tetris from Soviet developers. He is not a patent-assertion entity and holds no litigant business operations.
Patent-litigation posture. Louie appears in exactly one tracked case, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases). He was sued alongside LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Alsop Louie Management LLC, Alsop Louie Capital 2, L.P., and Alsop Louie Partners 2, LLC — the venture entities being LookingGlass investors and Louie serving as CEO of both companies.
Notable case. In Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. et al. (E.D. Va. 3:21-cv-00597, filed Sept. 14, 2021, transferred from Alexandria to Richmond Division), Centripetal — a Herndon, Virginia network-security operating company — asserted patent infringement (including U.S. Patent 10,757,126) plus breach-of-contract and fiduciary-duty claims arising from an earlier relationship. Centripetal is a frequent enforcer of its own patents; LookingGlass was acquired by ZeroFox in April 2023. Case merits are not assessed here.