Patent ID: 8178026

Claim:
A nanoimprinting method of transferring a pattern of a mold by performing nanoimprinting at least twice, the method comprising: forming at a region for performing a first nanoimprinting process on a substrate, a first patterning region with a first affinity to resin; forming at a region for performing a second nanoimprinting process on the substrate, a second patterning region with a second affinity to resin, the second affinity being lower than the first affinity; applying resin to the first patterning region and transferring a pattern of a mold to the resin by the first nanoimprinting process; and modifying the second patterning region to a region with affinity to resin that is higher than the second affinity, then applying resin to the modified region, and performing the second nanoimprinting process to process the second patterning region thereby connecting patterns formed at the first patterning region and the second patterning region to each other, wherein when performing at least one of the first nanoimprinting process and the second nanoimprinting process, a mold is used which has a processing surface for processing the first patterning region and the second patterning region, the processing surface having formed thereon a third patterning region with a third affinity to resin and a fourth patterning region with a fourth affinity to resin that is higher than the third affinity outside the third patterning region, and wherein at a time of releasing of the mold, the resin applied to the substrate and being in contact with the fourth patterning region on the processing surface of the mold is adhered to the fourth patterning region and removed from the substrate.