Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Index and pinky fingers up. Thumb perpendicular. Some say it's the devil's horns. The Kiss rocker says it's his. 
  
 Thumb up or thumb down? 
  
 Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is awaiting the signal from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he filed an application Friday for a trademark on a hand gesture. Rock fans are probably familiar with the sight. Here's the drawing that's included in the application: 
  
 According to Simmons, this hand gesture was first used in commerce Nov. 14, 1974. That appears to correspond with Kiss' Hotter Than Hell tour. 
  
 Speaking of hell, the hand gesture appears quite similar to what's known as the "Sign of the horns," a devil signal that, according to an entertaining entry from Wikipedia, dates back to the 5th Century BC founder of Buddhism. It's also the American Sign Language gesture for "I love you." 
  
 Simmons is claiming the hand gesture mark for "entertainment, namely, live performances by a musical artist; personal appearances by a musical artist." 
  
 Before the Trademark Office allows this hand gesture to be registered — it perhaps wouldn't be unprecedented — an examiner would consider the likelihood of confusion and, possibly, whether it's too generic to be associated with Simmons. Here, for example, is the album cover for the Beatles' 1966 single, Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby: 
  
 On the road to registration, Simmons might have other obstacles besides John Lennon. Among them could be how in certain Mediterranean cultures, the horns — or "rock on" — gesture is, in the words of The New York Post, "made to a man to imply that his wife is cheating on him." Whether or not that matters is possibly impacted by the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling in Tam v. Lee. Then again, maybe Simmons is saying "I love you," but if so, those who use sign language might not love what he's doing. 
  
 An even bigger question is the extent to which Simmons could enforce trademark rights even if his registration is accepted. 
  
 Former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page has tried. Some reported that he had sued Jay Z over the "Roc-A-Fella Hand Gesture,” alleging it was a trademark infringement of his "Diamond Cutter hand gesture," although we couldn't locate any complaint. However, we did find a lawsuit filed by Page in 2010 against the American electronic music duo, 3OH13. Here was the complaint filed in court. According to records from the Trademark Office, the case settled. 
  
 No matter what happens for Simmons, we guarantee nobody will ever be able to trademark a handshake. ||||| Due to high-volume usage, you may experience intermittent issues on the Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system between 6 – 8 a.m. ET. Refreshing your web browser should resolve the issue. If you still need assistance accessing a document, email <a href="mailto:teas@uspto.gov">teas@uspto.gov</a> and include your serial number, the document you are looking for, and a screenshot of any error messages you have received.<br><br>Starting Oct. 4, 2018, bulk data customers should no longer obtain direct access to TSDR data through tsdrsec.uspto.gov. <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/checking-application-status-view-documents/trademark-bulk-data">There are two alternative ways to receive bulk data from TSDR.</a> ||||| I will see your grainy G. Simmons and raise you one J. Lennon on the cover of the Yellow Submarine single 1966. # NoTrademarkpic.twitter.com/bV2s6rHyUP |||||  
  
 Gene Simmons appears at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles in 2012 to announce an upcoming tour. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) 
  
 Numerous historians long ago agreed that rock-and-roll emerged from Ike Turner’s “Rocket 88,” but who invented the “rock on” hand gesture so associated with the genre? 
  
 That’s the hand signal fans and rockers alike hold up during shows, in which the index and pinkie fingers are extended, the middle and ring finger are curled into the palm, and the thumb either sticks out from the hand like an errant branch from a tree or is also curled into the palm. 
  
 The “rock on” or “Devil’s horns” hand gesture, which Gene Simmons wants trademarked. (Courtesy of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) 
  
 And Gene Simmons, the co-founder of Kiss, claims he used it first. 
  
 Simmons recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, seeking to trademark the hand gesture. He claimed on the application that the gesture was first used commercially, by him, on Nov. 14, 1974, which would have been during Kiss’s “Hotter Than Hell” tour. 
  
 For his request to be accepted, of course, “an examiner would consider the likelihood of confusion and, possibly, whether it’s too generic to be associated with Simmons,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. 
  
 While there is documented evidence Simmons liked to rock-and-roll all night and party every day, he may have a bumpy road arguing he was the first to use or popularize the gesture that’s become ubiquitous among fans of loud guitar riffs and pounding drums. 
  
 Similar gestures — if not the exact same one — can be found in the world of music predating Kiss touring on its debut, eponymous record in 1974. 
  
 Consider, for example, John Lennon’s hand on the cover of the Beatles’s single “Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby,” which was released in 1966 — a full seven years before Kiss was even formed. 
  
 I will see your grainy G. Simmons and raise you one J. Lennon on the cover of the Yellow Submarine single 1966. #NoTrademark pic.twitter.com/bV2s6rHyUP — Chuck Nowlin (@ChuckNowlinWZLX) June 15, 2017 
  
 Then in 1969, psychedelic rock band Coven released an EP with not one but two members flashing the sign. This variation, though, does pull the thumb in, which is the more popular version of the gesture in rock music. 
  
 Gene Simmons wants to trademark 'devil's horn' gesture. Says first used in 1974… yet Coven released this album in 1969. Hmmmmm… pic.twitter.com/vwqktTQ9p8 — Mitch Lafon (@mitchlafon) June 15, 2017 
  
 Many credit the popularization of the hand gesture not to Simmons but to Ronnie James Dio, the heavy metal rocker who in 1979 replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath. As the Florida Times-Union reported: 
  
 Ozzy’s big gimmick on stage was flashing double peace signs. It had become such a Black Sabbath ritual that when Dio took over, he felt the band wouldn’t be the same unless he used a symbol as well, a former publicity agent told The Wall Street Journal. But he didn’t want to be an Ozzy copycat. Setting himself apart from Ozzy, Dio adopted what has become the rock music salute. 
  
 The gesture — both with thumb curled in and sticking out — enjoyed a long history before anyone ever plugged in an electric guitar, though. 
  
 Fans of the University of Texas at Austin have been using the hand gesture (thumb in), which they call the “Hook Em’ Horns” symbol, to cheer on their beloved Longhorns on the gridiron or court ever since a group of students came up with the symbol in 1955, according to the Texas State Historical Association. 
  
  
  
 Texas quarterback Chris Simms give the Hook ‘Em Horns sign after beating Louisiana State 35-20 in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 2003. (AP/Tony Gutierrez) 
  
 Meanwhile, superstitious Italians have used the gesture for many years to ward off the devil. Dio told Metal Rules online magazine he originally got it from his grandmother. 
  
 “I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that. That’s like saying I invented the wheel, I’m sure someone did that at some other point,” Dio said. “It’s an Italian thing I got from my grandmother … It’s to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it.” 
  
 It even appeared in this context in Bram Stroker’s 1897 novel “Dracula.” 
  
 Indeed, the BBC reported it is a common gesture in Italy, and has a double meaning. One might use it in a vulgar manner, flash it to a man whose wife is rumored to be cheating on him. 
  
 Here in the states, meanwhile, the gesture is known for a few reasons outside of music. 
  
 The more frivolous one is that Spider-Man makes it when he shoots sticky webs from his wrists. 
  
 Tomorrow is the day YOU become Spider-Man! Tag a photo of your Spidey costume on Instagram with #SpideyHalloween. A post shared by Spider-Man (@spidermanmovie) on Oct 30, 2014 at 2:23pm PDT 
  
 More importantly, though, it’s the American Sign Language symbol for “love.” 
  
  
  
 Edith Rikuris gives the “I love you” sign to fellow residents at Columbus Colony in Westerville, Ohio, in 2009. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post Magazine) 
  
 Simmons sure seems to have a long road ahead of him, but claiming a hand gesture isn’t completely unprecedented. Dallas Page, a professional wrestler known to fans as Diamond Dallas Page, long touched his index fingers and thumbs together to create a diamond as a sort of calling card. He was able to trademark it. 
  
 Meanwhile, 3OH!3, a Colorado electronic band, made a similar hand gesture in a photo shoot. Theirs was rounder, though, creating more of a circle than a diamond. Page sued the band in district court, and the parties eventually settled. 
  
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Student:
The "rock on" hand gesture is sported by everyone from teen girls to Spider-Man—but Gene Simmons claims it's all his. The KISS frontman filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday in an effort to trademark the sign, per the Hollywood Reporter. While similar to the "devil horns" gesture (make a fist, then raise your index and pinky fingers), Simmons' application is for the widely used sign that includes an extended thumb. Simmons claims he was the first person to use it commercially on Nov. 14, 1974, during KISS' "Hotter Than Hell" tour. Not so, according to a radio DJ who points out that John Lennon used the gesture on the cover of the Beatles' 1966 single "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby." As the symbol for "I love you" in American Sign Language, the gesture has also long been used by the deaf community, reports the Washington Post. (It's also the gesture Spidey makes when he shoots his webs.) Those appearances could complicate Simmons' endeavor. However, Simmons' application notes he plans to trademark the gesture for "entertainment, namely, live performances by a musical artist; personal appearances by a musical artist."