Members of the licensing companies and legal counsels of N.C. State and Nevada will talk together for the first time Friday concerning ownership of a disputed wolf head logo, according to Kurt Esser, the associate athletic director of marketing at Nevada.

Derek Hughes, a spokesperson for Collegiate Licensing Company which owns Nevada’s logo, confirmed the meeting will take place but refrained from comment about what will be discussed.

“We’ll wait and see what comes out of the meeting and figure our plan out then,” Hughes said.

Cindy Sears, NCSU’s director of trademark licensing, and a spokesperson for Licensing Resource Group, which owns NCSU’s wolf logo, also declined comment until after the meeting.

Nothing further has developed, but we’re working to resolve this,” Sears said.

According to Esser, the legal counsels for the two schools have talked but he hasn’t heard the details of their discussions. He added that no one from NCSU has contacted him directly about the use of Nevada’s logo.

“We’ll see what N.C. State wants to do about it on Friday and hopefully we’ll go from there,” he said.

Esser said he’s been approached by people at Nevada who have records of using the logo in 1948 and 1949, but nothing has been confirmed as of yet.

The nicknames and mascots of the two schools have differed for years. Nevada goes by the two word Wolf Pack nickname, while NCSU’s is Wolfpack. Nevada’s mascot is named Wolfie, wile NCSU’s goes by Mr. Wuf.

According to a Nevada web site, titled “Wolfie undressed: History of Nevada’s mascot” Wolfie began appearing with a hat in the late 1980s.

NCSU has four items in its online store that use the wolf head logo, while Nevada has six.