Patent ID: 7815430

Claim:
A mold for imprinting a pattern onto a resin material applied onto a substrate, comprising: a mold substrate formed of a material transparent to light in at least a part of a wavelength range of light used for alignment; an alignment structure area having an alignment structure comprising the following portions of said mold substrate: two spaced apart top projection surfaces; a bottom surface below said top projection surfaces and extending between the top projection surfaces; and two side walls each extending from different top projection surfaces to the bottom surface, wherein the spaced apart top projection surfaces, the side walls, and the bottom surface together define a recess portion of the mold substrate; a pattern forming area having a pattern; and a coating layer formed of a material having an optical characteristic different from that of the mold substrate, wherein the coating layer is on side walls of the recess portion of the mold substrate but is not on the spaced apart top projection surfaces of the recess portion of the mold substrate.