-- A Northport bakery will meet with the

after the business received a cease-and-desist letter demanding the bakery stop selling products featuring the school's script 'A' logo.

The letter came from the Collegiate Licensing Company, which has a contract with UA to license trademarked items.

owner

Mary Cesar

posted the following on her business' Facebook page:

"

The Collegiate Licensing Company, representing the University of Alabama, has demanded that we immediately cease and desist using the UA logo, script A, 'Roll Tide,' "Bama" or any other *mark* of the University. I know they are trying, but we refuse to let them kill our Bama spirit. We may not be able to put an 'A' on a cookie, but we'll have plenty of legal sweets. Roll Tide!

"

Cesar shared the cease-and-desist letter, which specifically mentioned "Marks of the University," including the "SCRIPT A" and "ROLL TIDE." The letter says the use of the trademarked phrases and images constitutes infringement and unfair competition.

The letter also demands that Cesar "advise us in writing of your compliance with the foregoing and furnish us a list describing each item manufactured and/or sold by you which bears the Marks of the University and each item that you presently have in inventory."

The business, located at 412 B 22nd Avenue in Northport, sells a wide variety of football-themed cakes and cookies with the logo. But not anymore, it seems.

Owner Mary Cesar wrote on her business' blog, "We won't be putting any single red A's on cookies or cakes at the bakery" in light of the situation.

"That's because we've been put on notice that we would be sued by the owners of the first letter of the alphabet, if our version looks like their intellectual property," she wrote on the blog.

Cesar writes she is in the process of clarifying what football-themed designs the business can put on its desserts, including houndstooth on hats and other shapes. Right now, they'll stick to generic elephants and footballs until the situation gets worked out.

She posted on the Mary's Cakes and Pastries Facebook page that she recently got a call from UA, who asked to meet next week to "work something out." Local customers have hit Facebook and other social media outlets to express support and concern.

Cesar says she's spent the entire week visiting family in California, where she got news about the letter via email. She said before she boarded a flight to come back to Alabama on Wednesday morning, she received a call from a UA athletic department representative, whom she said was "very nice and extremely apologetic about the way it was handled."

UA spokesperson Deborah M. Lane released the following statement: "UA has talked to Ms. Cesar and has apologized for the letter, which is not consistent with the protocol we normally follow for local vendors on trademark issues. We have assured Ms. Cesar that we will work with her to resolve this issue quickly and amicably so that she can continue to produce pastries that bear the University's marks. We will also make sure that everyone involved in the licensing process is fully aware of UA's long-standing communications practices and concerns when dealing with local merchants."

As for now, Cesar says her bakery will not make any Alabama-themed products until the issue is resolved.

"It's been difficult handling all this from a distance and I must say I'm amazed and humbled by the outpouring of support from the public," Cesar said. "I'm hoping that will happen before the football season starts."