Patent ID: 8901012

Claim:
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, comprising: a substrate stage, a substrate being settable on the substrate stage, the substrate including a semiconductor; a transfer unit configured to transfer a pattern having an uneven configuration onto a major surface of the substrate by attachably and removably holding a template, causing a transfer surface of the template to contact the major surface of the substrate, and curing a transfer material coated onto the major surface, the pattern being provided in the transfer surface; and a control unit configured to acquire information relating to a number of foreign objects on the major surface of the substrate prior to the transferring of the pattern and add the number of the foreign objects for a plurality of the substrates including the pattern transferred by the transfer unit, the control unit being configured to cause the transfer unit to implement the transferring of the pattern in the case where a sum of the number of the foreign objects is less than an upper limit, the control unit being configured to cause the transfer unit not to implement the transferring of the pattern in the case where the sum has reached the upper limit.