Kiss’ Gene Simmons recently filed an application with the United States Patent and TradeMark Office to register the devil horns hand gesture (above) as his own. In his application, Simmons wrote a literal description: “a hand gesture with the index and small fingers extended upward and the thumb extended perpendicular.” He claimed that he first used it on November 14, 1974, which is when Kiss were touring behind their second album, Hotter Than Hell. Now, the application has been withdrawn, after an “express abandonment” was filed by Simmons. Whether that has to do with public backlash, or the fact that the hand gesture also means “I love you” in American Sign Language, or just that the trademark would be unenforceable, we’ll never know.