The NULL in the following example means the second datetime_expression has a start time of 2001-06-13 15:00:00 and a null end time.
SELECT 'OVERLAPS' WHERE (TIMESTAMP '2001-06-12 10:00:00', TIMESTAMP '2001-06-15 08:00:00') OVERLAPS (TIMESTAMP '2001-06-13 15:00:00', NULL);
Because the start time for the second expression falls within the TIMESTAMP interval defined by the first expression, the result is TRUE.