Patent ID: 7690912

Claim:
The pattern transferring mold used in a pattern transferring apparatus which brings the mold into contact with a photo-curing resin on a substrate and cures the photo-curing resin by light irradiation to transfer a pattern formed in on the mold onto the photo-curing resin, the pattern transferring mold comprising: a bottom face which contacts the photo-curing resin, the bottom face portion including a first area in which the pattern is formed and a second area formed outside the first area on the periphery of the mold, wherein the pattern-transferring mold has a mold releasing shape in the second area, the mold releasing shape providing a starting area of mold release from the cured photo-curing resin, and wherein the mold-releasing shape has a depressed shape whose size is larger than that of the depressed portions in the pattern.