As with anything, some inventions swim, and some inventions sink. They say some roads are paved with "good intentions" and in the patent world, some are littered with "bad inventions." It remains unknown as to whether the former somehow leads to the latter. Securing a patent for your invention will have no bearing on whether consumers will line up to purchase your latest and greatest creation, but, arguably, if it satisfies the tests of usefulness, novelty and non-obviousness, it is likely something that has some level of consumer demand. Check out the following article from Popular Mechanics on 10 patents, that may in fact complicate the average consumer's life, despite their arguable benefits to society.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/10-patents-that-make-simple-tasks-crazy-complicated#slide-1
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