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by tux3 1769 days ago
It seems they succeeded, besides Wikipedia the first result my Google view has is the codec.

If we have a scarce namespace, first come first served is not a much better way to allocate names than by popularity.

People have yet to successfully stamp a trade mark on words like Opus, and that is perfectly fine by me. Codecs and NLP datasets are distinct enough domains that any confusion will resolve itself quickly.