Wood Bat Trademark Question

Today a friend told me that one should hit the ball with the trademark or with the surface on the opposite side from the trademark.

I said no, it's the other way...trademark up or down at impact. Never hit with the trademark or the bat will break.

My friend made a call to a bat manufacturer and someone there confirmed his assertion.

I decided to prove my position, so I searched the net. Alarmingly, the very first site that I found included the following...

A brief mention of the role the bat’s label or trademark is also in order. The main purpose of the trademark is to identify the bat’s manufacturer. However, over the years the trademark has also been used to help orient the hitter to how to hold the bat relative to the grain. In ash bats especially the theory went that the trademark was placed on the weaker of the open grain faces thus making the opposite face the optimum surface to hit on.

The entire page is here...
Wood Bats

Everything else I found pretty much agreed with me, but is it possible that I've been wro...wr...wron...so hard to say...wrong?

Thanks,

Mike F