There's a story that's been hitting the wires (seen first via The Imbroglio), that a federal judge in Boston recently ruled in favor of a local New England plumbing company, who uses the famous (infamous?) number, "867-5309" under two local area codes (401 and 617), in order to keep a Florida plumbing company from using a toll-free version of the same number and competing in the same geographic region.
It's the kind of interesting case that an intellectual-property-geek-cum-Huey-Lewis-and-the-News-fan like me would be interested in, as it's all about trademark law (and whether and to what extent a phone number can be trademarked). And as for the Huey Lewis angle, while Tommy Tutone made the song the number comes from famous, it was written by Alex Call, friend and former bandmate of Huey in his pre-News band Clover. (Alex recorded his own live version on his recent album Incredibly Thick, which is an enjoyable listen. Read more about the history of the song on his album's liner notes or listen to it on CDBaby.)
Thus, for all of the aforementioned reasons, I would be interested in seeing the judge's order. I'm not having any luck pulling it up on the court's website (it may be there, but it's not apparent), so if anyone can send it to me I'd appreciate it.