Charitable beneficiaries of the 2022 CIP CUP include (1) Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, supporting Georgia Patents and other initiatives and (2) GIPA, who is empowering intellectual property to advance society® by building a model IP ecosystem to generate global impact from creativity & innovation in the Southeast. GIPA facilitates the creation, protection & enablement of ideas that serve the common good, and spearheads IP-related community events such as the Southeast IP Job Fair, Corporate IP Institute, IP Celebration, IP Think Tank and IP Hot Topics.