Patent ID: 7951512

Claim:
A reticle for a projection exposure apparatus, comprising: a reticle substrate; rectangular chip regions disposed on a surface of the reticle substrate and each surrounded by sides in a first direction and sides in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a rectangular first alignment mark arrangement region disposed on the surface and surrounded by sides in the first direction and sides in the second direction; a rectangular second alignment mark arrangement region disposed on the surface and surrounded by sides in the first direction and sides in the second direction; a scribe line region provided around the rectangular chip regions; and scribe line regions provided so as to be adjacent to the sides in the second direction of the rectangular first alignment mark arrangement region and to the sides in the second direction of the rectangular second alignment mark arrangement region, respectively, wherein: the rectangular first alignment mark arrangement region is adjacent via the scribe line region to one end portion in the second direction of a multi-chip region including a plurality of the rectangular chip regions; the rectangular second alignment mark arrangement region is adjacent via the scribe line region to another end portion in the second direction of the multi-chip region; the rectangular first alignment mark arrangement region and the rectangular second alignment mark arrangement region each comprise at least an alignment mark arranged therein; and a sum of a length of each of the sides in the second direction of the rectangular first alignment mark arrangement region and a length of each of the sides in the second direction of the rectangular second alignment mark arrangement region is equal to or smaller than a length of each of the sides in the second direction of each of the rectangular chip regions.