I have seen and owned too many stocks that went belly up because the CEO was "too good to do any real work, or get his hands dirty", and so they went belly up. COIN is on its way under right now because the CEO is bleeding the company dry, and spending money he does have (to pay his huge salary for doing nothing other than losing huge sums of money repeatedly), which has bankrupted the company repeatedly.
Howard Hughes once disappeared and was found months later loading baggage on a TWA airplane. He had been working at the bottom of the ladder for months at TWA, punching a clock. When his CPA (Hughes Tool company back then) finally found him, Howard told him to buy TWA. He turned TWA around and made a fortune because he learned where the problems were working the menial tasks at TWA for months, before he bought the company.
The CEO (Marc) told me recently that he WILL file an annual report this year. There is obviously no huge news to report yet, or he would have reported it.
Right now Marc is doing what needs to be done, selling and promoting the product!!
Patents are obtainable.. here is a clip from a paper I found about patents. The full paper is at the link posted below.
"First, don’t assume that because a product is based on naturally occurring substances, it won’t qualify for patent protection. Formulations and new mixtures of natural products may be patentable where they are nonnatural (not found in nature) combinations of individual agents that have a synergistic effect/action not previously known."
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