me·ta·phil, der<p>💡 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> Gene Simmons of the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rock</span></a> group <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KISS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KISS</span></a> filed a <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/patent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patent</span></a>¹ application for the 🤘"devil horns" hand gesture in 2017. </p><p>The claim failed, because the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPTO</span></a> regarded the gesture as too similar to the 🤟<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ILY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ILY</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/gesture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gesture</span></a> in the American <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SignLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignLanguage</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_</span><span class="invisible">the_horns</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DevilsHorns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevilsHorns</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ManoCornuto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManoCornuto</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Pommesgabel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pommesgabel</span></a> #🤟 #🤘<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metal</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GeneSimmons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneSimmons</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KissBand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KissBand</span></a></p>