Qualcomm Inc. shouldn’t expect a pretrial ruling from U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on the reasonableness of its licensing offer to Apple Inc. before Apple filed its 2017 antitrust suit.

At least, that was the impression Curiel gave at a hearing Friday as the second of three Qualcomm antitrust trials draws closer. But Curiel sounded determined to go forward with an April jury trial, despite “all of the moving parts” generated by the sprawling antitrust litigation in San Diego and by the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust action against Qualcomm in San Jose.