Patent ID: 8826847

Claim:
An imprinting apparatus that drips a hardening resin material onto a substrate to be processed, and brings a template into contact with the hardening resin material dripped onto the substrate to be processed so as to transfer a pattern that is formed to have irregularities, the imprinting apparatus comprising: an ejecting unit configured to eject and drip the hardening resin material onto the substrate to be processed; a stage on which the substrate to be processed is placed; a moving unit configured to relatively move the stage and the ejecting unit in order to drip the hardening resin material onto a desired position; and an observation unit configured to observe the dripped hardening resin material and the pattern in a state in which the dripped hardening resin material and the pattern are overlaid on a plane, before the template is brought into contact with the hardening resin material, wherein the template has a first pattern configured to transfer desired irregularities onto the hardening resin material, and a second pattern configured to observe the dripped position of the hardening resin material, and the observation unit observes the second pattern and the dripped hardening resin material.