08:53 AM EDT, 03/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were mixed premarket Friday with the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) down 0.4% and the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was flat recently.

CureVac ( CVAC ) shares advanced by over 15% after the company said the European Patent Office upheld a modified version of its mRNA patent after dismissing most of BioNTech's (BNTX) challenge in a case tied to their dispute over vaccine technology.