Recreations, which runs restaurants and other businesses, filed a trademark registration application with the Japan Patent Office for iso ramen, which is sold in coastal areas of Iwate Prefecture, but now they have withdrawn the trademark application.
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Ohtuchi Machi Officials are worried about the trademark filing by a third party of “Iso Ramen”, which is widely served at restaurants along the Pacific coast of the Iwate Prefecture.