Patent ID: 8770964

Claim:
An imprint apparatus for performing, for each shot of a substrate, an imprint operation of coating the substrate with a resin, and curing the resin while the resin is in contact with a pattern surface of a mold, the apparatus comprising: a support member configured to support the mold; a substrate stage configured to support the substrate; a detector configured to detect a force applied to the mold; a mechanism configured to form a space for removing the mold supported by said support member, between said support member and said substrate stage; a controller; and a display unit, wherein said controller is configured to: determine a release force required to detach the mold from the cured resin, based on a detection result from said detector; compare the determined release force with a first threshold value and cause said display unit to display a message prompting replacement of the mold, if the determined release force is larger than the first threshold value; and compare the determined release force with a second threshold value smaller than the first threshold value, and determine that filling of the resin into the mold is incomplete and cause said display unit to display the determination result, if the determined release force is smaller than the second threshold value.