二十一世紀知識經濟的挑戰，對智慧財產的全球性關注日趨加深，身處市場經濟的體制內，我們確實無法忽視西方智慧財產私權化之影響及其對於文化發展及科技創新之鼓舞，更不能拒絕接受東方社會欠缺智慧財產制度所形成競爭力劣後之情勢；此問題核心之所在正是智慧財產制度與市場經濟之交互影響所致；其影響也早已存在於東西方傳統產業的比較利益基礎上。同時，智慧財產之所以會在GATT與WTO架構下受到重視，亦應係另一種西方，尤其是海洋法系國家強調重商主義下之物質文明的表徵。本文嘗試自TRIPs發展的軌跡出發，掌握其重點階段的主要爭點與背景，進而歸納出國際智慧財產規範架構的演變，並企圖釐清在架構演變過程中所呈現出的諸多對應價值觀。

The challenge of 21□ century’s Knowledge Economy has brought forth more and more concerns towards the globalization of intellectual property rights (hereafter “IPRs”). Lain in today’s framework of market economy, we can never ignore the effect caused by the privatization of Western IPRs and its promotion function for cultural developments and technological innovation. Nor can we decline Eastern societies’ inferior positions resulting from their vacuum of an intellectual property scheme. The core of this problem has exactly lain in the interacted consequence between the IPR system and the market economy. As a matter of fact, this effect has existed on the basis of comparative advantages in traditional industries of Western and Eastern countries for a long time. Meanwhile, the reason why IPRs has been put particular emphasis under the framework of GATT and WTO is due to the reflection of Anglo-Saxon countries’ serious concern towards Mercantilism and Material Civilization. Therefore, this paper tries to start from the developing traces of TRIPs. This author will expound upon its main issues and backgrounds during significant phases and conclude by the evolution of international regulatory framework of IPRs’. I will also try to refine many corresponding values arising from this evolution process.