First on the offensive, now on the defensive, Disney/Pixar is now embroiled in yet another trademark spat, but this time it's about Pixar's Brave, their next film set for release next summer.

The Atlanta Braves, Georgia's popular major league baseball team, has taken issue with the naming of Pixar's upcoming movie.

Although trademarks are specific to their singular and plural forms and the Braves do not possess any trademarks for the word BRAVE (only BRAVES), the organization believes that damages will occur as a result of Disney's trademarks being approved as they have used the singular form before on merchandise.

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How a Pixar film would damage the reputation of a baseball team, I'll never know. But as mentioned in my article about Pixar's dispute with Pixar Petroleum, trademarks are only enforcable within a reasonable stretch of the original tradmark holder's field. So I suspect nothing much will come of this spat between a major league baseball team and an animated film about a Scottish archer princess.

Marvel and Disney announced that they will be releasing a series of four new Toy Story comic books. The first will be released for sale in March 2012.

The official synopsis for the first comic book of the series reads: "Andy's new puppy, Buster, loves to play with toys — but if Woody, Buzz and the gang can't control the playful pooch, all that chewing and shaking will leave them in a world of hurt! Will our heroes make it through in one piece with batteries intact? Find out this March in TOY STORY #1!"

Marvel Editor in Chief, Axel Alonso said of the series, "Everyone loves Toy Story, so we're excited to team with our friends at Disney-Pixar to bring readers all new stories of our favorite characters from these blockbuster films."

Fortune reports that Walter Isaacson's acclaimed biography on Steve Jobs may still, in fact, be unfinished. Isaacson suggests that his book could be expanded to include extensive annotations, or an addendum to fill in the story with additional details and document the last month of Jobs' life that Isaacson was unable to document, as his final interview with Jobs was conducted only one short month before Jobs passed away. "It's not the final draft," Issacson said of the book. (Thanks Mac Rumors)

One other interesting tidbit: Steve Jobs was named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2011. It would seem an obvious pick, if not for Walters' rule that those on her "Most Fascinating" list be living persons. She freely struck down the rule in favor of Jobs' rank atop the list. This may be little consolation for those who hoped to see him on the cover of TIME magazine as Person of the Year, but it's nice to know that there are still some people who recognize his impact on the news of 2011.