Patent ID: 8609008

Claim:
A method of imprinting a pattern, for each shot region on a substrate, using a mold having the pattern by bringing the mold into contact with a resin coated on the substrate, and then curing the resin, wherein the mold comprises: a central region having the pattern, and a pair of first peripheral regions on a surface of the mold, wherein: the central region includes a pair of boundaries parallel to a first direction, the pair of first peripheral regions are located outside the pair of boundaries parallel to the first direction, the first peripheral region includes a first region with a mold-side mark and a second region with no mold-side mark, a gap between the first region and the substrate is not filled with the resin upon bringing the mold into contact with the resin, a gap between the second region and the substrate is filled with the resin upon bringing the mold into contact with the resin, and the first region and the second region are opposed to each other on opposite sides of the central region; wherein the method comprises, for each shot region: an aligning step of aligning the mold and each shot region to imprint the pattern by observing a substrate-side mark on the substrate positioned below the first region not filled with the resin, and the mold-side mark; and an imprinting step of imprinting the pattern by bringing the mold into contact with the resin coated on the substrate without filling the resin into a first scribe line region below the first region in the aligned shot region, and then curing the resin, wherein the first scribe line region, which is positioned below the first region and is not filled with the resin in the imprinting step in a given shot region, is positioned below the second region and is filled with the resin in the imprinting step of a next shot region adjacent to the given shot region.