diff --git a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
index 8f63de41874..8e380b639c7 100644
--- a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
@@ -599,6 +599,7 @@ void TokenInfo::punctuationOrOperatorKind()
 
     if (m_types.mainHighlightingType == HighlightingType::Punctuation
             && m_types.mixinHighlightingTypes.empty()
+            && kind != CXCursor_OverloadedDeclRef
             && kind != CXCursor_InclusionDirective
             && kind != CXCursor_PreprocessingDirective) {
         const ClangString spelling = m_token->spelling();
diff --git a/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp b/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp
index 8221afc29f6..f4c9aa74bbb 100644
--- a/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp
+++ b/tests/unit/unittest/data/highlightingmarks.cpp
@@ -771,3 +771,20 @@ void func(T v) {
 }
 
 static std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> pv;
+
+template <class T, long S>
+struct vecn
+{
+    T v[S];
+};
+
+template <class T, long S>
+static inline constexpr vecn<T, S> operator<(vecn<T, S> a, vecn<T, S> b)
+{
+    vecn<T, S> x = vecn<T, S>{};
+    for(long i = 0; i < S; ++i)
+    {
+        x[i] = a[i] < b[i];
+    }
+    return x;
+}
diff --git a/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp b/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
index 562f852abed..b7ebeba692e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
+++ b/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
@@ -1801,6 +1801,12 @@ TEST_F(TokenProcessor, NestedTemplate)
                                        HighlightingType::DoubleAngleBracketClose));
 }
 
+TEST_F(TokenProcessor, OperatorInTemplate)
+{
+    const auto infos = translationUnit.tokenInfosInRange(sourceRange(787, 28));
+    ASSERT_THAT(infos[9], HasOnlyType(HighlightingType::Punctuation));
+}
+
 Data *TokenProcessor::d;
 
 void TokenProcessor::SetUpTestCase()