A Delaware federal judge has denied Intel Corp.’s bid to transfer an infringement suit to California, where the chip giant is already facing claims that it had infringed patents for semiconductors and microprocessors.

U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly of the District of Delaware on Monday declined to take up Intel’s argument that VLSI, the nonpracticing patent holding company that filed both lawsuits, was improperly engaging in forum shopping, and found little overlap between the two cases.