MSL:I carefully and fully explained to you why I would not do that on this particular design

no such explanation was ever given, let alone one done carefully.

MSL:As the owner of the design and the owner of Peerless

Just because you say it enough does not make it so. So far it looks like you own the special 'P'. I might at some point agree that you even own the whole name. That is a far different thing from owning the designs, and the rights to any control over their production. Besides, once I modified it in such a way as to be useful for a specific and original circuit, any possible or imagined protection would become a whole lot more open to interpretation.

MSL:you seem to have this viewpoint that if you acquire a product as a consumer that you have purchased the design rights to that design

No, I said I would acquire the design itself. If said design was in some way protected, that protection would be the instrument for preventing me from doing as I please with said design. In this particular case, that being the winding details of the Peerless transformer line, no such protection exists. What may exist is protection from selling them from the Peerless Transformer store. I can copy what ever of them it pleases me to. If you can convince me otherwise, I invite your discussion. I will not discuss anything privately though due to your propensity to publish editorialized and edited versions of said communication on your corporate website.

You claim your ignoring me is entirely due to my behaviour? what is behaviour is that? Telling you on a public forum that your analysis has holes in it? Discovering a way around your unimaginative production ideas? Offering said solution at a quarter of your wholesale price? All reasonable perhaps, but to accuse me of theft, and then retreat is not going to get me to see things your way, or leave you alone.

I welcome your civil discussion, as it appears that there are many misunderstandings between us which are doing neither of us any good. If you wish to carry on a RAT-wars sort of feud, you may also do that...why this would be your choice given the disasterous outcome of the last one is quite beyond me.

cheers,
Douglas