Can I use a craft kit multiple times?

If you can do it yourself, why pay money?

It mainly depends on what is specified in your contract.

Who designed it, who provided it. The process package purchased may differ from the design in certain aspects, so it is necessary to communicate well with the design institute.

Generally, foreign companies’ scope of work includes stipulations regarding such matters, and usually an additional fee is required； Domestic process packages don’t have as many requirements, mainly because there is little emphasis on intellectual property rights in China.

This post was last edited by arpcd on 2017-4-14 at 14:06. After purchasing a craft kit, foreigners and Chinese people think differently in this regard: Chinese people think, \"I won’t have to pay again next time; why should I pay? I’ve already paid once, and now I can use it thousands of times. It’s just like my new rice cooker at home – why am I only allowed to cook one meal with it? I want to steam three thousand meals and use it for ten years.\" . . . Foreigner: If someone buys this pot, they definitely won’t cook just one meal at home; they’ll cook either 1,000 meals or 3,000 meals, and they want to be charged the price equivalent to 3,000 meals at once. . . . That’s roughly the difference. . . That’s why foreign-made stoves are particularly expensive; P, because they know that going to court in China basically solves nothing. . . . There’s also a habit among some Chinese people that drives foreigners crazy: after buying a pot, they modify it in a more traditional style according to their own customs, so that it no longer looks like the original pot.

It is necessary; this is the protection provided by the Intellectual Property Law for proprietary technologies (process packages). Of course, when the same unit uses this process package for the second time, it can request a reduction in certain technical service tasks from the process package provider, thereby lowering the costs.

This post was last edited by Wise Ming on 2017-4-15 at 20:53. This is intellectual property; even if you learn how to use it again, you still need to pay a fee.

Your view is incorrect. The design institute and the process package provider are two distinct roles. The process package is the foundation of process design. Users can purchase it, or they can ask a design institute to buy it. Of course, there are also design institutes that develop their own \"process packages\" and use these packages to carry out engineering design.

I agree with view #4; the right to use the process package depends on the terms specified in the contract, which are usually divided into single-use and multiple-use； Single-use; the cost per use is high ； It can be used multiple times, usually with a limit on the number of times it can be used within a few years; it cannot be copied indefinitely. Once the usage period has passed, the process package must be invalidated even if the number of uses has not been exhausted. The average price of process packages used multiple times is lower.