I would suggest to my friend that if she does not want it ever published, she wants to keep it a secret in perpetuity, do not ask for a patent. Keep it as a trade secret and get protected under the trade secrecy laws. But if she wants a patent it has to be published. She is protected while it is published, and then the patent protects her, and then the world may benefit from her wonderful invention.
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