I am not an expert here, but I think it's the litigious (and often frivolous) US system you need to worry about. You can sue for emotional distress over crap... you can claim to be misled against public evidence to the contrary and what not. It's a multibillion dollar biz in the US. You can claim you didn't know your coffee was that hot and sue for millions when you idiotically spill it on yourself. Etcetera. Internationally, I have never heard about the ridiculous cases that make it into the system into the USA. Which is also why any sort of insurance against those will be expensive.
I do work in large high tech silicon valley companies, and cease and desist stuff is everyday stuff, and it always gets settled out of court 99% of the time.
In the sprit of fact-driven analysis, let me help you with the greedy-plaintiff hot-coffee case. This was a huge PR win for the insurance companies . The facts as reported by the Center for Justice and Democracy are here
McDonald's Coffee Facts
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My comment on Amir's proposal I think there's great merit in beating back bullies who use threats of litigation as anti-competitive tools to increase or maintain market share. There are attorney members more expert in IP, defamation, and unfair competition than I, but one vein outside of IP proper are cases involving non-competes. The news there generally is not good for the bullies in that arena and there are analogue principles related to unfair competition.
My suggestion: Instead of focusing solely on developing a standardized process for lawyering up, which is no doubt warranted, could principles and testing standards be standardized through ANSI? Way out of my wheelhouse here, but ANSI standards come up frequently in products cases and serve as a defense to product and consumer safety cases. The International Society of Workplace Investigators has gotten ANSI approval for its group and standards, and consumer audio testing might be amenable to similar treatment.
My question: taking the idea "next level" (as the young people say), if an organization is contemplated, would it be possible to develop ANSI certification standards including: member certification standards, tests conducted by a member of Audio "X" (Musk will want it to himself) using the following tools calibrated to mfr spec and used according to protocol 123, subjective impressions are identified as such. It's a lot of work, but engineers love that kind of detail and standardization analysis.....don't you?