diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue590.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue590.py
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+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+from ...attrs import *
+from ...matcher import Matcher
+from ...tokens import Doc
+from ...en import English
+
+def test_overlapping_matches():
+    vocab = English.Defaults.create_vocab()
+    doc = Doc(vocab, words=['n', '=', '1', ';', 'a', ':', '5', '%'])
+
+    matcher = Matcher(vocab)
+    matcher.add_entity(
+        "ab",
+        acceptor=None,
+        on_match=None
+    )
+    matcher.add_pattern(
+        'ab',
+        [
+            {IS_ALPHA: True},
+            {ORTH: ':'},
+            {LIKE_NUM: True},
+            {ORTH: '%'}
+        ], label='a')
+    matcher.add_pattern(
+        'ab',
+        [
+            {IS_ALPHA: True},
+            {ORTH: '='},
+            {LIKE_NUM: True},
+        ], label='b')
+ 
+    matches = matcher(doc)
+    assert len(matches) == 2