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Who creates and owns ideas around Rio Rancho
Intel’s newsroom describes a manufacturing campus in Rio Rancho that includes Fab 11X. An Intel press release dated May 3, 2021 describes a 2021 investment announcement and says the technologies developed and manufactured at the Rio Rancho site include Optane technology, embedded multi die interconnect bridge and silicon photonics. Treat that as the company’s description as of May 2021, not as a report on what the campus makes today.
The company’s history in the city is older. A November 2020 Intel article says Intel moved into New Mexico in 1980 when it put Fab 7 on a former sod farm in Rio Rancho, and a video blurb on the same page mentions a site of 218 acres.
Registering a business and a name in New Mexico
The City of Rio Rancho’s business registration instructions sit on the City Clerk’s pages. They say the license or registration type depends on the type and location of the business, and they list commercial, home based, out of city and limited time registration types. Contact the city before you visit.
A city registration is one thing and a trademark is another. New Mexico takes trademark and service mark applications through the Secretary of State’s Business Services Division, at 325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300, Santa Fe, NM 87501, under the state Trademark Act. The Secretary of State’s 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 list a $50 filing fee that includes one class, $25 for each added class and a $25 fee to renew, as of their 2020 revisions.
Courts, clocks and the basics
The federal district court for New Mexico is the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
New Mexico’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act is at Sections 57-3A-1 to 57-3A-7 of the New Mexico statutes (NMSA 1978), and the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library’s guide to uniform laws lists it.
Local offices to know about
Central New Mexico Community College operates a Rio Rancho Campus, and its campus page describes a Digital Media Lab that pairs high school and college students with small businesses and community projects in Sandoval County to produce items such as websites, logos and videos. If a student project produces a logo or a video for your business, ask an attorney who owns the result.
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Before you speak with an attorney, collect the dates you created, published or sold the work and any agreement that touches it. For a statewide view, see New Mexico intellectual property attorneys. Readers in nearby Albuquerque and Edgewood can find pages written for their towns. To start, you can get matched with an intellectual property attorney.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Intel’s Rio Rancho campus include?
A press release dated May 3, 2021 describes an Intel manufacturing campus in Rio Rancho that includes Fab 11X. The release says the technologies developed and manufactured at the Rio Rancho site include Optane technology, embedded multi die interconnect bridge and silicon photonics. The page describes a 2021 investment announcement, so it speaks for 2021, not for today.
When did Intel arrive in New Mexico?
A November 2020 Intel article says the company moved into New Mexico in 1980 when it put Fab 7 on a former sod farm in Rio Rancho. A video blurb on the page mentions a site of 218 acres.
Which types of business registration does Rio Rancho list?
The City Clerk’s page on business registration says the license or registration type depends on the type and location of the business. It lists commercial, home based, out of city and limited time types. Use the city’s contact details before you visit.
What does the Digital Media Lab at the CNM Rio Rancho Campus do?
Central New Mexico Community College’s Rio Rancho Campus runs a Digital Media Lab that pairs high school and college students with small businesses and community projects in Sandoval County to produce items such as websites, logos and videos.
Where is the University of New Mexico campus in Rio Rancho?
The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Rio Rancho campus is next to Sandoval Regional Medical Center in the Rio Rancho City Center, according to the university’s 2022 to 2023 catalog, which says the campus is developing health educational programs.
Must a mark already be in use before the state registers 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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