Patent ID: 8685631

Claim:
A method of inspecting a formed photoresist pattern comprising: forming a photoresist layer on a film formed on a substrate by moving a nozzle in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of a slit of the nozzle relative to the substrate while supplying a photoresist liquid from the slit of the nozzle above the film; forming a resist pattern which covers a portion of the film by patterning the photoresist layer by photolithography; and inspecting the resist pattern, wherein the photolithography includes an exposure which is performed so as to transfer a latent image to the photoresist layer, and a development of the photoresist layer which is performed so as to leave the latent image, the latent image contains a dummy latent image which is formed in directions parallel to and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the slit including a portion which extends in an unbroken manner parallel to the longitudinal direction of the slit, the resist pattern contains a dummy resist formed correspondingly to the dummy latent image, and the step of inspecting the resist pattern includes the detection of the presence or non-presence of a cut in the dummy resist in the longitudinal direction.