Patent ID: 8361372

Claim:
A method of forming a pattern comprising: a first step of forming a liquid-composition coating film by applying a liquid composition onto a first plate; a second step of forming a pattern on the first plate by pressing a second plate having a projection-and-recess pattern on a surface side thereof onto a surface side of the first plate, on which the liquid-composition coating film is formed, to transfer an unwanted pattern of the liquid-composition coating film to top faces of projections of the second plate, thereby removing the unwanted pattern; and a third step of transferring the pattern to a surface of a transfer-receiving substrate by pressing the surface side of the first plate, on which the pattern is formed, onto the surface of the transfer-receiving substrate, wherein, when a surface tension of the surface of the first plate, onto which the liquid composition is applied, is represented by α, a dynamic surface tension of the liquid composition at 100 msec measured by a maximum bubble pressure method is represented by β, and a surface tension of the top faces of the projections of the second plate is represented by γ, the composition of the liquid composition and a material of the surface of the first plate and the second plate is set so as to satisfy γ>α≧β.