Patent landscapes › Home & cleaning
Is a tissue box patented?
Short answer: specific designs of a tissue box have been patented many times, but "a tissue box" as a general idea is not what is protected. What matters is the exact combination of features in your version.
What our index shows
- 208 US and WO patent publications since 2000 have a title matching “tissue boxdispenserholder” or a close variant (our index of 9.7 million patent families; one publication per family).
- Among the 176 best keyword matches we examined, 33 were published in 2020 or later, and the earliest was published in 2000.
- Most frequent assignees in those matches: KIMBERLY CLARK CO (5), PROCTER & GAMBLE (4), Hysential Pty Ltd (3), VALVE SOLUTIONS INC (2).
- Most common patent classes (CPC subclasses): A47K (142), B65D (55), B60R (15), Y10S (11).
Counts come from keyword matching on titles and abstracts, so they are indicative, not a legal count. Some matches are different products that share a word.
14 real patent publications related to a tissue box
- Tissue box dispensing feature US-12471743-B2 2025 · SANDFORD PETER E
A single piece tissue container free of a plastic film or paper dispensing window comprising a tissue dispensing portion on a top panel of the tissue container, the tissue dispensing portion comprising: (a) an outlet cut line havi…
View on Google Patents - Tissue box covering apparatus US-11737612-B2 2023 · AHMED TARIQ
The tissue box cover is an apparatus that helps prevent contaminants such as dust, bacteria, germs, droplets, allergens and viruses that may be spread by sneezing, coughing, talking of people and pets from intruding into the tissu…
View on Google Patents - Anti-glue overflow wet tissue box cover US-10472135-B2 2019 · TOP GREEN WORLD PACKAGING CO LTD
The utility model discloses an anti-glue overflow wet tissue box cover, comprising a cover body and an upper cover surface connected with the cover body. A glue overflow groove depressed upward is arranged on a lower surface of th…
View on Google Patents - Tissue box with improved tissue dispensing US-10149580-B1 2018 · AL HERAIBI ABDULRAHMAN SALEH
The tissue box with improved tissue dispensing may have an auxiliary device or tool for frictionally engaging and manipulating a tissue contained within the tissue box. The tissue box includes a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of …
View on Google Patents - Removable dispensing cover for tissue box US-9624026-B1 2017 · AL-HERAIBI ABDULRAHMAN SALEH
The removable dispensing cover for tissue boxes includes an oblong dispensing cover detachably mounted to a top of a tissue box. A pull tab extends from one end of the dispensing cover for selective grasping by a user for subseque…
View on Google Patents - Foldable greeting card and tissue box cover US-9561681-B2 2017 · DAYSPRING CARDS INC
A greeting card tissue box cover is provided. In one embodiment, the greeting card body is arranged in a single plane, having first, second, third, and fourth panels that are foldable along multiple fold lines to arrange the greet…
View on Google Patents - Tissue box US-9487340-B2 2016 · CASTELA GONZALO
A disposable container for tissues (a tissue box) includes a plurality of sides defining an interior space, wherein at least one side includes at least one dispensing opening. The dispensing opening is at least partially covered b…
View on Google Patents - Dispensing Tissue Box US-2015353266-A1 2015 · MURPHY BERNARD
A tissue box that, in the preferred embodiment, includes an additional and integral box cover section which may be pivoted away from the tissue box, then engaged with the same in a way that permits support on a flat surface and wh…
View on Google Patents - Tissue box cover US-7665628-B1 2010 · MILLIGAN LOREN
A tissue box cover with an integral tissue lifting device is provided. The tissue box includes a bottom portion having a base and four side members defining an opening for receiving a tissue box. The base has a lifting device. The…
View on Google Patents - Single dispensing wetted tissue box US-2005230408-A1 2005 · SEAGER RICHARD H
A package for dispensing tissues including a body having a lower body portion and an upper body portion defining a tissue holding space, wherein the lower body portion is hingedly connected to the upper body portion along a first …
View on Google Patents - Sheet or tissue dispenser box holder for clinic, vehicle, factory or household applications US-6364185-B2 2002
A sheet material dispenser box holder, such as a cosmetic tissue box holder, is made of elastic cord or strap material in a woven fish-net pattern forming a bag shaped container closed at the top except for an access opening for e…
View on Google Patents - Tissue box cover US-2002067038-A1 2002
A tissue box cover having a top with a tissue access opening defined therethrough and flat, surrounding depending side walls provided to house a conventional cardboard box of facial tissue. A display opening is defined in at least…
View on Google Patents - Tissue box US-6419114-B1 2002 · PROCTER & GAMBLE
The present invention is directed to a box ( 10 ) for containing tissues, comprising at least one opening ( 11 ) located on at least one side of the box, under which a dispensing insert ( 14 ) is positioned so that it covers at le…
View on Google Patents - A tissue box WO-0224550-A1 2002 · PROCTER & GAMBLE
The present invention relates to a tissue box. Claimed and described is a tissue box (10) comprising a dispensing orifice (20) which is releasably covered by a orifice cover (22), wherein said orifice cover (22) is attached to a s…
View on Google Patents
What this means for your idea
Because patents cover specific combinations of features, the useful question is not “has a tissue box been patented?” but “has my combination of features been described before?” Household products tend to differ in the mechanism (how something attaches, folds, dispenses or cleans) rather than the basic idea.
Or get the full $99 report: top 10 references charted feature by feature, in 24 hours.
Guides that help with this
First-look landscape. Not exhaustive. Not legal advice. This page lists keyword-matched publications from a limited database; it does not say whether any product is or isn't covered by a patent, whether a patent is still in force, or whether your idea is patentable. Consult a registered patent attorney or agent.