You get 1 free touch attack on the round you cast the spell.
Any charges not expended on the round you cast the spell fall under the rules for holding a charge.
Holding the Charge: If you don’t discharge the spell in the round when you cast the spell, you can hold the charge indefinitely. You can continue to make touch attacks round after round. If you touch anything or anyone while holding a charge, even unintentionally, the spell discharges. If you cast another spell, the touch spell dissipates. You can touch one friend as a standard action or up to six friends as a full-round action. Alternatively, you may make a normal unarmed attack (or an attack with a natural weapon) while holding a charge. In this case, you aren’t considered armed and you provoke attacks of opportunity as normal for the attack. If your unarmed attack or natural weapon attack normally doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity, neither does this attack. If the attack hits, you deal normal damage for your unarmed attack or natural weapon and the spell discharges. If the attack misses, you are still holding the charge.
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The specific rules within the spell Chill Touch itself override the general rules you are quoting.
JJ got asked about chill touch ages ago
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2l7ns&page=513?Ask-James-Jacobs-ALL-your-Qu estions-Here#25604
JJ's interpretation is interesting, and boosts the power of an underused spell -- and I like it -- but it is totally unsupported by the Rules As Written. But whether you take the Held Charge interpretation or the JJ interpretation, for sure you do not have to use up all charges in one round. IMNSHO, the "touch multiple targetsin a single round" rule is intended to apply to delivering buffs to allies, for example, Water Walk and Water Breathing.
By funny coincidence, I just wrote a blog post on delivering touch spells that you may find useful.
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How is JJs "ruling" anything other than describing it as a held charge spell? Seems like the exact definition of "indefinitely" to me. Level X gets X touches, they are held indefinitely until you touch something/anything X times. Melee touch attacks against opponents count, as do touches on friends (ouch, no no in PFS). This spell is generally the exact one used to describe how holding the charge works.
JJ's interpretation says that you CAN cast other spells and NOT lose your remaining unused Chill Touches. Standard Held Charge rules say that if you cast another spell your unused touches disappear.
You get 1 free touch attack on the round you cast the spell.
Any charges not expended on the round you cast the spell fall under the rules for holding a charge.
Holding the Charge: If you don’t discharge the spell in the round when you cast the spell, you can hold the charge indefinitely. You can continue to make touch attacks round after round. If you touch anything or anyone while holding a charge, even unintentionally, the spell discharges. If you cast another spell, the touch spell dissipates. You can touch one friend as a standard action or up to six friends as a full-round action. Alternatively, you may make a normal unarmed attack (or an attack with a natural weapon) while holding a charge. In this case, you aren’t considered armed and you provoke attacks of opportunity as normal for the attack. If your unarmed attack or natural weapon attack normally doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity, neither does this attack. If the attack hits, you deal normal damage for your unarmed attack or natural weapon and the spell discharges. If the attack misses, you are still holding the charge.
Volkard is absolutely correct. If a touch spell has multiple charges, they exist indefinitely until expended, or at least until the caster casts another spell (at which point in time, the touch spell in question would immediately dissipate).
So to clarify: E.G.: A level 5 caster, and let's just for funsies say that this particular caster has TWF.
Round1: Touch of Whocareswhatitdoes is casted as a Standard Action - with a free touch attack - at 1charge/level - so 5 charges
Round2: The caster makes two touch attacks this round, and with each touch attack, Touch of Whocareswhatitdoes goes off IF YOU HIT, if you do not hit, it does not go off.
Round3: The caster makes two touch attacks AGAIN this round, and with each touch attack, Touch of Whocareswhatitdoes goes off IF YOU HIT, if you do not hit, it does not go off.
And so on and so forth, UNTIL, 5 charges are expended, OR, the caster casts another spell.
Fun fact: Touch spells can inadvertently go off, even when touched accidentally by allies or normal "passerbys" while the Touch spell is active. Touch spells are indefinite, so if you don't dispel it somehow, that Touch spell lingers upon you until the next soul you touch (which may even be your horse or even your familiar), so be safety conscious while using touch spells peeps.
Thats why my grippli uses his tongue for that! although he does sometimes randomly lick things...
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This FAQ isn’t directly answering this question, but it indirectly does while describing how spells with multiple touch attacks work for Spellstrike/Spell Combat.
Magus, Spellstrike: If I cast a spell that allows multiple touch attacks, can I deliver all of those spell touches through my weapon?
Yes. For example, if you cast chill touch (which allows multiple touch attacks), you could use spellstrike to cast and deliver the spell through your weapon, and in later weapon attacks you could use your weapon to deliver the remaining spell touch attacks (one spell touch attack per weapon attack).If you have multiple attacks per round with that weapon (such as from having a BAB of +6 or higher), you can use the weapon to deliver multiple spell touch attacks per round, so long as you have uses of that spell touch attack remaining.
For example, if you are an 8th-level magus (BAB +6/+1) and you cast chill touch, you have up to 8 uses of that spell touch attack. If you make two weapon attacks in a round, you can deliver two spell touch attacks per round (one for each successful weapon attack).
Note the example at the end which talks about making attacks over several rounds.
Touch Spells: If a spell allows multiple touches, are you considered to be holding the charge until all charges are expended?
Yes.