Patent ID: 8361371

Claim:
A method comprising: patterning a mesa of an imprint lithography template with patterned features and a first maze pattern distinct from the patterned features, said first maze pattern comprising an array of depressed or protruding spaced apart features positioned at the boundary of the mesa to surround said patterned features, and said array comprising multiple rows of said spaced apart features, wherein spaced apart features of at least one row are aligned or staggered with respect to spaced apart features of an adjacent row, and wherein at least one of said multiple rows surrounds at least one other of said multiple rows and is positioned closer to the mesa boundary; dispensing polymerizable material on a substrate; and, contacting the mesa of the imprint lithography template with the polymerizable material on the substrate, wherein the first maze pattern reduces and slows propagation of the polymerizable material beyond the mesa boundary during said contacting.