Recently Kiss Catalog Ltd., the owner of the intellectual property rights pertaining to the legendary rock group KISS, filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the word mark “The End Of The Road”. If granted, the registration will protect the use of the standard character mark of “The End Of The Road” on entertainment services, specifically “live performances by a musical band.”
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Word of the application has led to speculation among KISS fans across the world that the band could be preparing to embark on its final tour.
KISS had once before publicly announced its plans to call it quits nearly 20 years ago. Guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley later said that the band’s tumultuous “Farewell Tour” in 2000 was nothing more than an attempt by the group to “put KISS out of its misery” after years of ego clashes and disagreements over songwriting credits between the band’s original members.
“The ‘Farewell Tour’ was to get off the stage with our tails between our legs while we still had some self-respect left,” bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons explained. “And it became very clear the fans didn’t want us to go.”
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Paul Stanley has repeatedly said that the band could one day continue without him and Gene, explaining in an interview: “Once the original [KISS lineup] was no more, it just became clear to us that, in some ways, we’re much more a sports team. We don’t fall into the limitations of other bands, because we’re not other bands. So, yeah, at some point, I’d love to see somebody in the band in my place, and it’s because I love the band.”