Qifan Huang is an associate in Wilson Sonsini's Palo Alto office, where his practice centers on internet strategy and litigation.

Qifan litigates the questions defining the next era of internet law—from generative AI training and outputs to safe harbors and platform and intermediary liability. He pairs that experience with regular counseling on privacy, web scraping, and music licensing, helping technology companies navigate risk before disputes arise. His representative matters include:

• Defending Google in multiple ongoing lawsuits over generative AI training and output, as well as claims challenging Google Play's privacy and digital advertising practices
• Securing wins for Pinterest in a series of litigations testing the scope of Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbors and copyright management information (CMI) claims
• Defeating class certification for YouTube in a putative copyright class action involving alleged infringement and CMI removal—a result that led plaintiffs to dismiss their claims on the eve of trial
• Defending TikTok in a putative data privacy class action concerning tracking technologies

Qifan maintains an active pro bono practice, representing digital rights organizations in cases at the intersection of technology and the Constitution and devoting substantial time to local public interest organizations.

Before joining the firm, Qifan served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. At Columbia Law School, he was co-president of the Columbia Society for Law, Science and Technology and a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Qifan is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.