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A trademark examiner who didn't know about the Disney-Pixar merger and the Atlanta baseball team are two of the problems that Disney faced in the run-up to the Friday release of its new animated film.

The Pixar movie opened at No. 1 with $66.7 million, but shares of Disney -- which bought the studio for $7.4 billion in 2006 -- dropped 1.6 percent Monday. By Paul Bond Merida, wonderfully voiced by ...