ha! that's great, you're the first person in 6 years to pick up on the fact that indeed there is work remaining. what we did was patent the process based on the evidence of fellermeier & zenk, as well as raharjo 2003 that did find olivetol in a protein sample = although neither went ahead to sequencing their work... fairly trivial stuff....

for the record i consider the world of biotech patents to be a subject of extremely thin ice, patenting DNA or any natural biological reaction seems almost heretical... however that said it's what the big boys at pfizer and monsanto do, and we're simply working with the system...

the patent itself is a bit rude in that it patents stuff that isn't even entirely discovered yet.... again, a somewhat rude approach to the patent world, again, i didn't make the rules, just playing with them.

this is a common approach used to try and get a few pieces of the puzzle locked up to then attract investors & complete the work... hopefully as laws become more realistic we'll be able to continue the research and at the very least stimulate some other folks to get to work on this.