ADVERTISEMENT Breitling's Sanctions Bid Shot Down In 'Red Gold' TM Suit Law360 (July 27, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT) -- A sanctions fight in trademark litigation between Swiss watchmaker Breitling and a California jeweler over the term "red gold" has been put to rest, after a Connecticut magistrate judge ruled that neither side had managed to prove dueling claims of misconduct. In a brief opinion filed Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Dave Vatti said Breitling's claims that opposing attorney David Hecht of Hecht Partners LLP had slandered the company in a press release and lied to the court about his departure from his former firm, Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP, didn't hold up under scrutiny.