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Las Vegas at a glance
This page is about Las Vegas, New Mexico, and it is organized as a checklist. The first item is the city’s business registration. The City of Las Vegas, at 1700 North Grand Avenue, uses its own Business Registration Application, and the city’s form, in the version updated in December 2023, shows a standard registration fee of $35. Fees and forms change, so confirm both with the city. Registering a business and protecting what it makes are separate tasks, and the steps below cover the second one.
Step one: identify what you own
Make a plain list of what you created or built, such as writing, artwork, software, an invention, a business name or a method you keep private. Sort the items by the kind of protection that might fit.
Step two: check what is registered
Before you rely on a name, find out whether it is already registered. A trademark or service mark can be registered with the New Mexico Secretary of State, Business Services Division, 325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300, Santa Fe, NM 87501, under the state Trademark Act, and the Secretary of State’s trademark page describes it. The Secretary of State’s application instructions, revised in 2020, ask for three different specimens, at least one showing a New Mexico physical address, and they say the mark must already be in use in New Mexico. The Secretary of State’s forms, from their 2020 revisions, list a $50 filing fee that includes one class plus $25 for each added class, with a $25 fee to renew, so ask the office for current figures.
Step three: know the court
The federal district court for New Mexico is the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
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Step four: watch the clock
Add each item’s dates to the list from step one.
Step five: protect secrets at work
New Mexico has its own trade secrets statute, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, at Sections 57-3A-1 to 57-3A-7 of the New Mexico statutes (NMSA 1978). The New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library’s guide to uniform laws lists it.
Step six: use local help
The New Mexico Small Business Development Center for northeastern New Mexico is hosted by Luna Community College at 366 Luna Drive in Las Vegas. According to the center’s location page, it offers no cost consulting and training to businesses in San Miguel, Mora, Colfax and Guadalupe counties. The page is undated. The question of who owns an invention, a work or a brand goes to an attorney.
Step seven: local organizations to know
New Mexico Highlands University has its main campus in Las Vegas. An announcement published in November 2025 on the university’s site says the American Council on Education designated it a Research College and University (R3). For more information about research and sponsored programs, the announcement names the Dean of Graduate Studies as the contact. If your work came out of a university project, ask an attorney how the school’s rules on inventions and written works apply to you before you publish or sell it.
Step eight: talk to an attorney
Take your list and your dates to a first conversation, along with any agreement that touches the work. For a statewide view, see New Mexico intellectual property attorneys. Readers in this part of the state may also open the pages for Santa Fe and Espanola, and readers elsewhere can start from intellectual property attorneys across the country. When you are ready, you can get matched with an intellectual property attorney.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does the City of Las Vegas charge to register a business?
The City of Las Vegas, New Mexico, at 1700 North Grand Avenue, uses its own Business Registration Application. The form version updated in December 2023 shows a standard registration fee of $35. Confirm current fees with the city.
Who hosts the Small Business Development Center in Las Vegas?
The New Mexico Small Business Development Center for northeastern New Mexico is hosted by Luna Community College at 366 Luna Drive in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It offers no cost consulting and training to businesses in San Miguel, Mora, Colfax and Guadalupe counties, according to an undated page.
Is New Mexico Highlands University a research institution?
An announcement published in November 2025 says the American Council on Education designated New Mexico Highlands University a Research College and University (R3). Its main campus is in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and the announcement names the Dean of Graduate Studies as the contact for research and sponsored programs.
Must a mark already be in use before New Mexico will register it?
The Secretary of State’s instructions, revised in 2020, say the mark must already be in use in New Mexico.
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